Article: Rosemarie Bodenheimer. Knowing Dickens.(Book review)

Rosemarie Bodenheimer. Knowing Dickens. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2007. 227 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-4614-6, $35.00.

Rosemarie Bodenheimer's Knowing Dickens presents what could be called a biography of Dickens's mind. What did Dickens know? What can we know about him? How much of what he reveals in his writings was he conscious and in control of? Bodenheimer aims to explore "the revealing and concealing intelligence that lurks somewhere-but where, exactly? in Dickens's writing," and she attempts "to capture something of that knowing Dickens that eludes us" (2). Bodenheimer struggles to categorize her work, suggesting that it "makes its home in the gap between the ...

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