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inDickens’snovelswithanilluminatingpresentationofthematerialculture
ofthe19thcentury,illustratingtheimportanceforDickensoftheLondon
cityscapeandofferinganalysisoftheanthropologicalaspectsofnight,darkness,
fire.DominicRainsford[41827:Real,Fictional,andMythicTimeinThe
PickwickPapers’]engageswiththeproblemsofhistoricity,universality,and
anachronisminfiction,discussingthenovel’schronologyintermsofDickens’s
personalhistory;hissenseofthesocialandpoliticalspecificsofthe1820s;
theamateurantiquarianismthatissatirisedwithinthenovel;anditsfictional
placementinaliteraryno-man’s-landbetweenRomanticismandtheVictorian.
SophiaJochen[4“Wemustmarry’em”:MarriagesandEndingsinCharles
Dickens’sDombeyandSon’]addressesthequestionofwhethermarriagewas
reallyahappyendingforthewomeninDickens’snovels,demonstratingthatin
thecaseofDombeyandSon,itispresentedasafrequentlyfarcicaltradition
whichdoesnotintroducethelife-enhancingchangesthattheprotagonistsdesire.
MagdalenaPypeŠ[4DickensWritesTrauma:Post-TraumaticStressDisorderin
TheMysteryofEdwinDrood’]examinesthedepictioninEdwinDroodof
acolonialothersufferingfromapathologicalmentalandemotionalcondition,
andconcludesthatDickenswasdescribingPTSDsymptoms,whileatthe
sametimeindicatingpathwaystohealingandrecovery.PrzemysŠawcinski
[4FiguresofHypocrisy:PityandPovertyinCharlesDickens’sHardTimes’]
arguesthatinHardTimes,Dickensusedparodyandironytoexpose
utilitarianismashypocritical,andexaminesthetextualdevicesandintertextual
referencesemployedtothisend;healsodiscussestheaestheticsofthenovel.
VictorianpoetryisappraisedbyCatherineMaxwell[4Cultivatingthe
Imagination:PlantsandFlowersinLaterVictorianPoetry’]inanessaywhich
discussestherepresentationofflorainthepoetryoftheperiod.Sheshowsthat
poemsusuallyinvokeflowersimpressionisticallyforanincidentalatmospheric
contributionorforsymbolicorpersonalassociations,beforegoingontoanalyse
poemsbyConstanceNaden,LaurenceBinyon,AlgernonCharlesSwinburne
andKatherineBradleythatlookattentivelyatplantsandflowers.Victorian
fictionhasattractedconsiderableattention.AnaClaraBirrento[4ThePossible
WorldsofOliphantandEliotinMissMarjoribanksandMiddlemarch’]evaluates
themodesusedbythetwonoveliststoconstructpossibleworldsforwomen
characters,discussingtherelationshipbetweentheprivatelivesofmenand
womenandthepublicissuesofcultureandsociety.RebeccaWarburtonBoylan
[4SavingFace:RespectingNature’sInversionsinThomasHardy’sAPairof
BlueEyes’]arguesthatinthis1873novelHardyusesphotographicimpressions
ofdisruptedrealismtoshowhowawoman’srescueofamanmomentarily
promisesanewregardforthewoman,buteventuallyreleasesatorrentof
destructivesecretsandlies.JoannaKokot[4The“(Un)fairPlay”Methodin
ArthurConanDoyle’sSherlockHolmesTales’]examinestheimportofthe