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Article: Bleak House as an allegory of a middle-class nation.
- Article from:
- Dickens Quarterly
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
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The political iconography of modern nations is inherently connected to the French Revolution that displaced the king's body with the feminized image of the Nation as the sacred center of power. As a result of the French Revolution, female allegories of the nation became increasingly popular. They were used in numerous linguistic and visual representations of the nation, which was portrayed as the moral alternative to old European regimes. (1) Bleak House was written when the British ancien regime remained in power despite the rapid industrialization of the country, and through the female allegory of Esther Summerson's "progress" it uncovers the incongruity between the ...
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