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Relationship Patterns

27 May 2022
Part One “Reading through a writer’s entire oeuvre one is often struck by repetitive patterns. These patterns . . . assume their full significance only as they emerge in work…
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“All Those Thieves and Pickpockets Lurking in Dark Alleyways”: Oliver Twist Onscreen

23 May 202223 May 2022
by Boze We’ve talked before on this blog about the visual nature of Oliver Twist. In terms of cinematic images per page it’s rivaled only by A Tale of Two…
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Supplement to Introduction to “Oliver Twist”

14 Apr 2022
As promised, here is Peter Ackroyd's chapter on "Oliver Twist". !! SPOILER ALERT !! There is a lot of information in this concise essay. Enjoy! ackroyd-otDownload
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Supplement to Introduction to Sketches & Pickwick

3 Mar 2022
To supplement the absolutely fabulous introductions provided by our own Inimitable Wren I've attached below those provided by Peter Ackroyd for both "Sketches by Boz" and "Pickwick Papers". His little…
Dickens' Works…

“. . . the observer as the observed”: supplementary to Sketches by Boz

27 Jan 202228 Jan 2022
In an effort to gain a better understanding of Dickens's / Boz's vision in the Sketches, I visited my basement library of Dickens criticism and pulled out S.J. Newman's wonderful…

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