Dickens and Women

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Stanford University Press, 1983 - Literary Criticism - 465 pages
This 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
Index of Female Characters
455
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