Knowing Dickens
MEMORY 69 sprinkled through his work, such moments suggest his private amusement in little games of telling and not telling. Joh ...
70 KNOWING DICKENS recognize the instability of the account that Forster organized and edited for his own purposes after Dickens ...
MEMORY 71 comments, “What the waiter thought of such a strange little apparition, coming in all alone, I don’t know; but I can s ...
72 KNOWING DICKENS and hopeless,” he writes, “cannot be written” (emphasis added). In dreams, he writes, he becomes the child ag ...
MEMORY 73 that the claim is not literally true: his parents did provide young Dickens with lodging, clothes, and family company. ...
74 KNOWING DICKENS touch which graces that novel. He had been writing about painful memory since his birth as a novelist. The in ...
MEMORY 75 Then, Dickens makes his most interesting move: Oliver wakes up in terror, and “actually” sees the two dark figures sta ...
76 KNOWING DICKENS own person would require some way of negotiating with that suppressed shame; Noggs can do so only by acting t ...
MEMORY 77 between his nostalgic love of memory and his fear of uncontrollably intrusive memories. From the start, the faculty of ...
78 KNOWING DICKENS younger character-David hovers in a blurrily continuous time zone, quite dif- ferent from the retrospective j ...
MEMORY 79 Perhaps the most disconcerting scene in the novel occurs when David, hidden behind a door, watches Rosa Dartle attack ...
80 KNOWING DICKENS sets forth in Dickensian style what the implicit assumptions of the tyranny were (DC 4). In a description of ...
MEMORY 81 object of Dickens’s first infatuation showed up again in his life, he responded as if he were identical with the young ...
82 KNOWING DICKENS memory of being whole-hearted—if wrong-headed—may have struck him with particular force. The fantasy of a fir ...
MEMORY 83 Little Dorrit retains Dickens’s moral contrast between those who remem- ber resentfully (like Miss Wade and Mrs. Clenn ...
84 KNOWING DICKENS identity (GE 2.20). Pip “knows” Magwitch, but he does not remember him because he has been there all along as ...
MEMORY 85 character momentarily stops the action of a novel to confront an audience with a story of past suffering. Until late i ...
86 KNOWING DICKENS does so by manipulating her sexual reputation to destroy Dombey’s good name. At the moment when Carker’s long ...
MEMORY 87 These stories dramatize the disturbances that fed Dickens’s deep ambiva- lence about autobiographical confession. Rage ...
88 KNOWING DICKENS her resentment reduce every person she encounters to an instance of the self-interested hypocrisy she expects ...
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