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Dickens in Search of Himself

Recurrent Themes and Characters in the Work of Charles Dickens

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  • © 1987

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Authors:
  1. Gwen Watkins
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Gwen Watkins
    Pages 1-6

  3. I Want to Escape from Myself

    • Gwen Watkins
    Pages 7-18

  4. A Vacancy in my Heart

    • Gwen Watkins
    Pages 19-46

  5. Against Peace, against Hope, against Happiness

    • Gwen Watkins
    Pages 47-59

  6. My Wound of Love

    • Gwen Watkins
    Pages 60-82

  7. The Children that we Were are not Lost

    • Gwen Watkins
    Pages 83-107

  8. The Crime of being Born

    • Gwen Watkins
    Pages 108-124

  9. By the Living and by the Dead

    • Gwen Watkins
    Pages 125-147

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 154-165
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Although the book is scholarly in approach, its plain and lively style, its original theories and its new treatment of Dickens' female characters ensures its accessibility and appeal to the general reader as well as to the specialist student.

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