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Dickens and the daughter of the house

Author: Hilary Margo Schor
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Series: Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture, 25.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
The characters Orwell referred to as legless angels have been conjured as evidence of Dicken's inability to create real women. Schor argues that the role of the good daughter is interwoven with her angry double and is the centre of narrative authority.
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Named Person: Charles Dickens; Charles Dickens; Charles Dickens; Charles Dickens; Charles Dickens; Charles Dickens; Charles Dickens; Charles Dickens
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Hilary Margo Schor
ISBN: 0521440769 9780521440769
OCLC Number: 40682104
Description: xii, 232 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The uncanny daughter: Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, and the progress of Little Nell --
Dombey and son: the daughter's nothing --
Hard times and A tale of two cities: the social inheritance of adultery --
Bleak House and the dead mother's property --
Amy Dorrit's prison notebooks --
In the shadow of Satis House: the woman's story in Great expectations --
Our mutual friend and the daughter's book of the dead.
Series Title: Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture, 25.
Responsibility: Hilary M. Schor.
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Abstract:

The characters Orwell referred to as legless angels have been conjured as evidence of Dicken's inability to create real women. Schor argues that the role of the good daughter is interwoven with her angry double and is the centre of narrative authority.

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