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...Jonathan Arac Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 Jonathan Arac Hamlet, Little Dorrit, and the History of Character The most urgent agenda for contemporary literary theory involves all that it will take to forge a new literary history. From Fredric Jameson s slogan, always...

.... While Mrs. Sparsit is described with great exactness, Bounderby, who is more important and who is to be more forceful, is described in a series of terms like the Bully of humility, a Conqueror, the Royal arms. In another case, Pancks, in Little Dorrit is compared to a tugboat and a steam engine.3...

..., the Circumlocution Office in Little Dorrit, and Chancery in Bleak House all thwart goodness and hope. Great Expectations conveys this wariness of collective action tech­ nically. When Pip joins an organization, Herbert Pocket s shipping firm, his reality fades. He certainly stops inspiring Dickens. The next eleven...

... Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 Contents of Volume 87 Arac, Jonathan, Hamlet, Little Dorrit, and the Histoiy of Character 311 Asada Akira, Infantile Capitalism and Japan s Postmodernism: A Fairy Tale 629 Brennan, Timothy A., India, Nationalism, and Other Failures 131 Cain...

... this length deal with Pope, Byron, Hopkins, and Little Dorrit. Doctor Johnson gets six pages. The modems who appear include Eliot, Orwell, Betjeman, and Edmund Wilson. At the end, to prove that Mr. Wain s scope is not confined to literature, an essay on education fills thirteen pages and one on A Visit...

... on The Conflict of Forms in Contemporary English Literature. 448 The South Atlantic Quarterly The Mind of Shakespeare occupies fourteen pages. Other essays of approximately this length deal with Pope, Byron, Hopkins, and Little Dorrit. Doctor Johnson gets six pages. The modems who appear include Eliot, Orwell...

... allusions Dickens makes to these plays. See Robert Fleissner, Dickens and Shakespeare (New York, 1965). 2 The situation occurs elsewhere but never as centrally. Consider Agnes and Mr. Wickfield, Amy and William Dorrit, and Lucie and Manette. Old Martin Chuzzlewit and Scrooge could also qualify as figures...

..., The Dickens of Our Day, in his A Gathering of Fugitives (Boston, 1956), and also Little Dorrit, in The Opposing Self (New York, 1955); F. R. Leavis, Hard Times: An Analytic Note, in his The Great Tradition (New York, 1948); Walter Allen, The English Novel (New York, 1955). George Orwell s Dickens 375...

... books. 1 also agree with Gissing s intrepid assertion that, without qualification, Dickens s best novel is Little Dorrit. Gissing, remember, was writing at a time (just twenty-seven years after Dickens s death) when Dickens s later novels were considered a falling-off when, that is, the achievement...

..., Little Dorrit (1857; London: Penguin, 1998); and Annamarie Jagose, “Remembering Miss Wade: Little Dorrit and the Historicizing of Perversity,” GLQ 4.3 (1998): 423–51. 10 Pall Mall Gazette, July 2, 1897; The Graphic, May 22, 1897. At Home...

..., therefore, wavers between embodiments of isolation and connection, help­ lessness and control. The prison image recurs, by my count, nearly two dozen times, recalling first of all the many nineteenth-century novels, from The Heart of Midlothian to Little Dorrit to Resurrection, where it stands as a symbol...