Charles Dickens and the Image of Women / / David K. Holbrook.
How successful is Dickens in his portrayal of women? Dickens has been represented (along with William Blake and D.H. Lawrence) as one who championed the life of the emotions often associated with the "feminine." Yet some of his most important heroines are totally submissive and docile. Dic...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press,, [1993] ©1993 |
| Year of Publication: | 1993 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (210 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- CHAPTER ONE. Bleak House: The Dead Baby and the Psychic Inheritance
- CHAPTER TWO. Religion, Sin, and Shame
- CHAPTER THREE. Little Dorrit; Little Doormat
- CHAPTER FOUR. At the Heart of the Marshalsea
- CHAPTER FIVE. Great Expectations: A Radical Ambiguity about What One May Expect
- CHAPTER SIX. Finding One Another's Reality: Lizzie Hexam and Her Love Story in Our Mutual Friend
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Dickens's Own Relationships with Women
- Bibliography
- Index