0 used in questions to express anger or surprise: --
What the dickens are you doing with that paint?
Dickens creates in the child a symbol of humanity that has lived without the sweet influence of human kindness.
Dickens too, like that creatively wicked woman, prepares a kind of potion for his audience: a strong mixture of genres.
Dickens's novel hit as a result of his determination, planning, luck, and chance - it was the right novel at the right time.
Dickens's limitation was to end by rehearsing some of liberalism's most entrenched and selfjustifying mythologies.
Dickens's charge against professionalism is, from this perspective, an attempt to reject the modern process of mechanical alienation of humanity.
Dickens's genius is especially suited to the delineation of city life.
Dickens's allusions to the legend are often facetious, as we shall see.
Dickens could not shake his own conviction that the factory system possessed a mysterious and unfathomable interiority.
