Normative Ideology, Transgressive Aesthetics: Depicting and Exploring the Urban Underworld in Oliver Twist (1838), Twist (2003) and Boy Called Twist (2004)
In his preface to Oliver Twist, Dickens insists that his depiction of the London underworld is deprived of ‘allurements and fascinations’, and states his didactic ambition to offer a realistic description of this grim universe. Yet, in many ways, the text itself is led astray from this normative pat...
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2014-06-01
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| Series: | Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/cve/1145 |