Sentiment and Vision in Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol and The Cricket on the Hearth
This essay explores the ways in which sentimentality is manifested through the visible, and through associative functions of the eye, in two of Dickens's Christmas books of the 1840s. I situate the relationship between vision and sentiment within discourses from eighteenth-century moral philoso...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2007-04-01
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Series: | 19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century |
Online Access: | http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/457 |