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Article: Dickens and Heredity: When Like Begets Like.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- April 1, 2001
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Dickens and Heredity: When Like Begets Like. By GOLDIE MORGENTALER. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 2000. xv + 221 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling].
This highly accessible book effectively provides the missing link in terms of Dickens studies. Goldie Morgentaler convincingly and cogently opens up a hitherto largely unexplored area of Dickens scholarship and in the process, answers questions that have until now sat suspended in mid-air. There were many points in this book where I found myself nodding in agreement and grateful for Morgentaler's systematic and probing efforts to lift the veil of opacity that has hung over Dickens's understanding of and ...