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cdickens (8)in #schoolmasters • 7 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby #15/456
Although any man who had proved his unfitness for any other occupation in life, was free, without examination or qualification, to open a school anywhere; although preparation…
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cdickens (8)in #fiction • 16 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby #14/456
He has dwelt thus long upon this point, because his object in calling public attention to the system would be very imperfectly fulfilled, if he did not state now in his own…
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cdickens (8)in #dickens • 28 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby #13/456
G., Charles Dickens by Pen and Pencil(London: Frank T. Sabin/ John F. Dexter, 1890).MacKay, Carol Hanbery, ‘The Melodramatic Impulse in Nicholas Nickleby’, Dickens Quarterly…
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cdickens (8)in #dickens • last month
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby #12/456
In addition, Dickens removed a number of intensifying adjectives (‘this heartless scheme’ (1839), ‘this scheme’ (1848, 1867); ‘insolence and the coarsest pride’ (1839)…
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cdickens (8)in #dickens • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby #11/456
Mrs Watson’ in F. G. Kitton’s Charles Dickens by Pen and Pencil(London: Frank T. Sabin/John F. Dexter, 1890), p. 145.11.For further discussion of Nicholas, see Beth F. Herst, The…
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cdickens (8)in #dickens • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby #10/456
24The Nicklebys’ social and financial uncertainties are comically echoed in the pretensions to gentility that animate the Kenwigses and Fanny Squeers, and with surprising force…
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cdickens (8)in #nicholas • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby #9/456
He even has Nicholas do so in conversation with the ‘literary gentleman’, that is, the hack plagiarist who has dramatized ‘two hundred and forty-seven novels as fast as they had…
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cdickens (8)in #dickens • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby #8/456
Rather, he is asked to collude in a childishly simple set of codes, which require, for instance, that the Indian Savage (Mr Folair) indicate his admiration for the Maiden (the…
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cdickens (8)in #dickens • 3 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby #7/456
‘She calls me cruel – me – me – who for her sake will become a demd damp, moist, unpleasant body!’ exclaimed Mr Mantalini.Like Mrs Nickleby’s recollections, such flights of fancy…
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cdickens (8)in #dickens • 3 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby #6/456
Whereas the London of Dickens’s later novels tends to be given focus by a single institution – such as Chancery or the Marshalsea – whose narrative or symbolic significance…
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cdickens (8)in #shakespeare • 3 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby #5/456
She leaps into a discussion of Shakespeare at the opera by recalling a trip she made to Stratford in a post-chaise:‘Was it a post-chaise though!’ said Mrs Nickleby, considering;…
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cdickens (8)in #dickens • 3 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby #4/456
In addition, the book throws up an astonishing variety of minor characters whom Dickens hits off with insouciant brilliance: Mortimer Knag, Mrs Grudden, Mrs Blockson, Mr Snittle…
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cdickens (8)in #dickens • 4 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby #3/456
Such direct methods serve him less well in his struggles with his Uncle Ralph, who represents a more nebulous evil that Dickens finds more difficult to define and confront. As…
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cdickens (8)in #dickens • 4 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby #2/456
I was always curious about them – fell, long afterwards, and at sundry times, into the way of hearing more about them – at last, having an audience, resolved to write about…
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cdickens (8)in #dickens • 5 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby #1/456
INTRODUCTIONA few weeks before the opening number of Nicholas Nicklebywas due to be published on 31 March 1838, Dickens issued a three-page pseudo-legal statement that warned of…
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