dickens Meaning & Definition

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  • 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.

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