Knowing Dickens
MEMORY 89 a beneficent image of himself. Although it has been read as an instance of Dickens’s self-pity, it is, I think, just t ...
90 Chapter 4 Another Man “Another Man” shows up regularly in Dickens’s fiction. He often plays the role of a romantic rival, b ...
ANOTHER MAN 91 constant aim and ever impels to some new aim in which it may be lost, is so curious to consider, that I observe i ...
92 KNOWING DICKENS those between men and women. In life and in writing, relations among men allowed for expressions of affection ...
ANOTHER MAN 93 Dickens and welcomed the intense charm of his epistolary attentions. He had known women like Mary (Mrs. Charles C ...
94 KNOWING DICKENS between us now, indeed. I would to Heaven, my dearest friend, that I could remind you in a manner more lively ...
ANOTHER MAN 95 When Dickens traveled in Italy in 1844, he wanted Forster to know and admire his growing facility in Italian: “I ...
96 KNOWING DICKENS invitations to his friend, as well as his growing acknowledgment of Maclise’s tendency to withdraw from socia ...
ANOTHER MAN 97 unhinged rests on a fantasy of male rivalry for an impossible love-object, and ends in an escape from the thralls ...
98 KNOWING DICKENS and gone, after patronizing with suavity the whole population of Broadstairs, and impressing Tom Collin with ...
ANOTHER MAN 99 to a woman of twenty-three, with whom he had two more sons. He was in all these ways the friend who “went before, ...
100 KNOWING DICKENS him about how “tremendously old” he was, or to taunt him about being “so fearfully conceited in those preten ...
ANOTHER MAN 101 Dickens’s letters reveal a man who prided himself on the loyalty and affec- tion that were indeed strong forces ...
102 KNOWING DICKENS the great author Charles Dickens. When he returned to London, however, he wrote to her father, T. E. Weller, ...
ANOTHER MAN 103 Thompson, a man of Dickens’s age, had been a family friend since sometime in the 1830s. He was a gentleman of le ...
104 KNOWING DICKENS everything about Thompson’s affairs. Meanwhile Dickens is carrying on with Mr. Weller, who is trying to use ...
ANOTHER MAN 105 fortable. They are feverish, restless, flighty, excitable, uncontrollable, wrong- headed; under no sort of whole ...
106 KNOWING DICKENS and the Screen,” Steven Connor offers a brief history of changes in the meaning of the term. Through the nin ...
ANOTHER MAN 107 persons who render themselves liable to it, impelling them onward to the acquisition of a frightful notoriety.” ...
108 KNOWING DICKENS white teeth and his red hair, is actually empowered by the keenness of his eye to wreak revenge on his uncon ...
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