Dickens, too, was quick to exploit the possibility of a mass readership.
Dickens treats them as he almost always treats governmental machinery - as so much red-tape.
Dickens presents a pseudo-aristocratic register in the noun phrases "familiar denomination," "antlered herd" and "shady precincts," with their connotations of hunting and hereditary lineage.
Dickens attempts to set up a being devoid of the romanticized national culture.
Dickens himself was not unaware of his hypocrisy in the matter.
Dickens later performed magic privately for friends and family (p. 131). 12.
Dickens, it appeared, was more interested in causing trouble and enhancing his own prominence than in engaging in a discussion of the evidence.
Dickens could not shake his own conviction that the factory system possessed a mysterious and unfathomable interiority.