5/22/2023 0 Comments Bleak house pages![]() ![]() ![]() But as Eagleton suggests, it was this jumble of people and institutions and ideas that seemed so characteristic of the England in which Dickens lived:Įngland was becoming a more corporate place as Dickens's writing career unfolded, shifting from the stage coaches and rural inns of The Pickwick Papers to trade unions, state education, national transport systems, large-scale banking and industry and governmental red tape. Dickens, in a word, saw no unity in the world around him, and consequently presented no unity in the fiction he derived from it. And some readers hold that against him, noting the mishmash of comic grotesques and sentimentalized "real" people and the shifts in tone from exhortation to irony in almost all of his novels. "Unlike James Joyce or Henry James, Dickens was never much taken with the fetish of organic unity," observes Terry Eagleton in his preface. Preface, by Terry Eagleton Introduction, by Nicola Bradbury Chapter 1: In Chancery through Chapter 2: In Fashion ![]() Source: David Perdue's Charles Dickens Page ![]()
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