The Scriptures of Charles Dickens: Novels of Ideology, Novels of the Self.(Book review)

From: The Modern Language Review | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: Bradbury, Nicola | Copyright information

The Scriptures of Charles Dickens: Novels of Ideology, Novels of the Self. By VINCENT NEWEY. (Nineteenth Century Series) Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 2004. xii+315 pp. 47.50[pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-85928-434-5.

Vincent Newey makes three claims: that Dickens's fiction constitutes a Victorian Pilgrim's Progress or Protestant quest narrative, but one whose spiritual imperative has become ideological and ontological, exploring the psychological struggle between a ...

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