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Article: Dickens, Women, and Language.
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- Papers on Language & Literature
- Article date:
- January 1, 1993
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When I was a graduate student in Frederick Karl's Dickens and Eliot seminar in 1970, and we moved weekly from one massive Dickens novel to the next, I remember he suggested that to help organize our understanding of Dickens's works we might divide his characters by type into bipolar categories - the prevailing good guys and bad guys of Victorian culture - and that catalogues of images associated with the characters could also be assigned to these two categories. This schema worked well for us at the time, but then we were hardly touched by feminist criticism, new methods of linguistic analysis, or poststructuralist notions.
Many critics in the twenty years since ...
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