"The art of visible speech": infernal and purgatorial figurations in Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities

Abstract This dissertation is a study of the Dickensian imagination, focussing on the power of Dickens’s symbolism in Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities. Although Dickens believed himself to be a realist, this thesis explores a particular way in which his narrative style departs from re...

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Main Author: Fanucchi, Sonia
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10539/8352