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Scholarly study reading Dickens’s novels as urban poetry, exploring language, allegory, and the unconscious through critical theory.
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Scholarly study reading Dickens’s novels as urban poetry, exploring language, allegory, and the unconscious through critical theory.
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"Focusing on the language, style, and poetry of Dickens' novels, this study breaks new ground in reading Dickens' novels as a unique form of poetry. Dickens' writing disallows the statement of single unambiguous truths and shows unconscious processes burrowing within language, disrupting received ideas and modes of living. Arguing that Dickens, within nineteenth-century modernity, sees language as always double, Tambling draws on a wide range of Victorian texts and current critical theory to exp...
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Recurring themes of modernity, urban life, and language disrupting social norms
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