...Barbara Hardy Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 Taylor Stoehr. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1965. xiv + 299 pp. $5.75. 230 REVIEWS Dickens: The Dreamer’s Stance. By TAYLORSTOEHR. lthaca: Cornell Uni- versity...

... original and perceptive readings of the novel, and of Dickens’s techniques in general, that I have ever encoun- tered, in spite of the fact that the arguments offered are partial, sometimes arbitrary, and on occasion overstrained. With J. Hillis Miller, Steven Marcus, and Taylor Stoehr very much...

... progressively, moves away from explaining in borrowed language the stages of the journey; increasingly, he drama- tizes those stages through one of the finest resources of his own lan- guage, through complex, unforgettable images. In “ ‘Mentalized Sex’ in D. H. Lawrence,” Taylor Stoehr sees Law...

.... A. Defoe 6. Spiritual Autobiography. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1965. xiii + 203 pp. $6.50. Stoehr, Taylor. Dickens: The Dreamer‘s Stance. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1965. xiv + 299 pp. $5.75. Sum, Edward, S.J., and J. H. Hexter (editors). Complete Works of St. Thomas...

... of Inspector Bucket: Origins and Parallels,” PMASAL, 50 (1965). 575-84. Taylor Stoehr. Dickens: The Dreamer’s Stance (I thaca, 1965). pp. 165-68. This point about Tulkinghorn has been niade previously by Joseph I. Fradin, “Will and Society in Bleak House,” PMLA, 81 (1966), 103. MICHAEL...

.... Laughing Matterh: The Paradox of Comedy. Amherst: Uni- versity of Massachusetts Press, 1986. xi + 151 pp. $20.00. Stoehr, Taylor. Words and Deeds: Essays on the Realistic Imagination. New York: AMS Press, AMS Studies in Modern Literature, 8,1986. xiv + 179 pp. $32.50. Taylor, Mark C. (editor...

... 389 have been read as if they were themselves dreams. Thus, according to Taylor Stoehr, both Dickens’ narrative technique and the meaning of his novels are explicable as attributes of “the dreamer’s stance If we object that such a view elevates the unconscious working of the imagi...