Knowing Dickens
LANGUAGE ON THE LOOSE 49 done their work, and Amy has taken on herself the role of the guilty party: “As if she had done him a w ...
50 KNOWING DICKENS more pronounced; when his daughter looks at him with concern he denies that he is tired and immediately assum ...
LANGUAGE ON THE LOOSE 51 by a false sense of empowerment. Her chapter, which Dickens thought of as central to his novel’s themes ...
52 KNOWING DICKENS straight up here, follow the gravel path, keep off the grass. I allow no tres- passing’ ” (“Hunted Down” 175– ...
LANGUAGE ON THE LOOSE 53 into the Home for Homeless Women that he ran for the rich philanthropist Angela Burdett-Coutts, and int ...
54 KNOWING DICKENS in dark scenes of mass disorder. Time and again “the flaming eye” of the sergeant’s lamp singles out a face a ...
55 Chapter 3 Memory In Dickens’s first fantasies about editing the periodical that was to become Household Words, he imagined ...
56 KNOWING DICKENS was launched, Dickens invited Charles Knight to write a series of papers entitled “Shadows,” which treated ea ...
MEMORY 57 past. It is often said that Dickens uses memory in a regressive way, in the form of a yearning for innocent pastoral c ...
58 KNOWING DICKENS century, and they “focused principally... on patterns of hidden memory within the individual” (Taylor 2000, 5 ...
MEMORY 59 is ever present to me, ever fresh and new to me” (4.642). In other letters of the mid-1840s good experiences “blot out ...
60 KNOWING DICKENS one. Dickens’s fear of it may be discerned in a letter of advice he wrote to his fellow-novelist Elizabeth Ga ...
MEMORY 61 as a way to correct the many inaccurate accounts of his life that found their ways into journals. Responding to one of ...
62 KNOWING DICKENS They have no thought of, and no care for, my existence in any other light” (3.575). This ancient anger about ...
MEMORY 63 alone in dark mines, and the testimonies of uneducated young voices led on by questions from grand commissioners may h ...
64 KNOWING DICKENS specters of the children Dickens encountered in his visit to a Ragged School in September 1843, who make mone ...
MEMORY 65 In one especially telling moment, Dickens parodies Londonderry’s ideas about the easy life of the six-year-old trapper ...
66 KNOWING DICKENS memory, it speaks in powerfully personal ways, its sense of abandonment audible in the iambic cadence of “a s ...
MEMORY 67 dark and tender memories, at least for the sake of maintaining the cheerful- ness of lives more innocent than one’s ow ...
68 KNOWING DICKENS phantasmagoric fictions served as the prelude to the brief, fragmented set of autobiographical reminiscences ...
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