Dickens and WomenThis brilliant, classic and scholarly study provides the fullest treatment of a key subject. It is one of the essential works on Dickens's work and life. Dickens's treatment of women is a central aspect of his artistic achievement. Professor Slater examines the novelist's experience of women - as son, brother, lover, husband, and father, and as it affected the deepest emotional currents in his life. His perception of female nature and his conception of women's role in the home and outside it - and the ways in which these found expression in his art - are pivotal topics. Professor Slater has sifted the mass of legends and doubtful traditions about Dickens's private life to present a close examination of his relations with women, and of his views of woman's nature and the womanly ideal. |
Contents
Ellen | 202 |
The Women of the Novels | 219 |
Dickens and Woman | 299 |
Appendix A The Violated Letter | 373 |
Abbreviations | 380 |
Select Bibliography | 449 |
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