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| Named Person: | Charles Dickens; Charles Dickens; Charles Dickens; Charles Dickens; Charles Dickens; Charles Dickens; Charles Dickens; Charles Dickens |
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| 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. |
| More information: |
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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