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TOPIC 47. THE ENGLISH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. ITS INFLUENCE AS A MODEL FOR…
TOPIC 47. THE ENGLISH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. ITS INFLUENCE AS A MODEL FOR HISTORICAL TRANSFORMATION. SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CHANGES THROUGH THE LITERATURE OF THE TIME. CHARLES DICKENS.
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4. CHARLES DICKENS
Early period
- Contrinuting to "Monthly magazine" * Sketches by Boz. Illustrative of Everyday Life and Everyday People
- The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club youthfulness, fellowship, romance & comic treatment of institutions & professions.
- Oliver Twist mixture of melodrama & realism. 1st nightmare novels & his social attacks.
- Nicholas Nickleby
- The Old Curiosity Shop most attractive & imaginative humour.
- Barnaby Rudge
Intermediate Period
- Visit to America American Notes, Martin Chuzzlewit
- Genoa, The Chimes A Christmas Carol
- London, editor of "Daily News"
Later work
- David Copperfield autobiographical material
- Bleak House
- Hard Times attack on capitalist society + soulless & sordid industrial life.
- Little Dori
- A Tale of Two Cities periodical "All Year Round"
- Great Expectations
- Last works Our Mutual Friend, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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Characterisation
- vivid & memorable, lack complexity & pshycological depth
- flat characters
- individualisation = external qualities
- Realistic method
Style
- Fluency & variety
- Keen eye for visual detail
- Mechanising individuals & animating objects
- Sensitivity to varieties of spoken English