Charles Dickens and the Image of Women
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David K. Holbrook. Charles Dickens and the Image of Women
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Charles Dickens and the Image of Woman
Contents
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE Bleak House: The Dead Baby and the Psychic Inheritance
She recalls her child self:
Has Charley locked them up alone?
Notes
CHAPTER TWO Religion, Sin, and Shame
Notes
CHAPTER THREE Little Dorrit; Little Doormat
CHAPTER FOUR At the Heart of the Marshalsea
CHAPTER FIVE Great Expectations: A Radical Ambiguity about What One May Expect
CHAPTER SIX Finding One Another’s Reality: Lizzie Hexam and Her Love Story in Our Mutual Friend
CHAPTER SEVEN Dickens’s Own Relationships with Women
Bibliography. Psychology and Philosophy
Literary and Historical Works
Index
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Mrs. Corney that was has tried the tears as less troublesome than manual assault. But now she is prepared to try the other method:
The first proof he experienced of the fact, was conveyed by a hollow sound, immediately succeeded by the sudden flying off of his hat to the opposite side of the room. This preliminary proceeding laying bare his head, the expert lady, clasping him tightly round the throat with one hand, inflicted a shower of blows (dealt with singular vigour and dexterity) upon it with the other. This done, she created a little variety by scratching his face, and tearing his hair; and, having by this time, inflicted as much punishment as she deemed necessary for the offence, she pushed him over a chair, which was luckily well situated for the purpose; and defied him to talk about prerogative again, if he dared. (269-70)
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