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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ioannou, Maria

Titel

'[M]ore letters to write ... than the Home Secretary': The Relationship between Dickens's letters and the Writing of his Characters in Bleak House and Great Expectations

Ist Teil von

• Dickensian, 2022-04, Vol.118 (516), p.6-4

Ort / Verlag

London: The Dickens Fellowship

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• There is an instance where Charles Dickens thinks similarly to Pip in Great Expectations, the moment they both see handwriting from the young women they love. Concerning Bleak House, for example, correspondence is deployed to give women a voice which would otherwise remain unheard - mirroring Dickens's sense of the personal document as a space where the reality of the writer can be depicted not only with extraordinary accuracy, but also with an element of the unexpected. [...]in a most significant manner, Carolyn W. De La L. Oulton has read letters and fiction together, to discuss how they 'reveal a mutual dependency, a relationship that helps to explain why letters become such an important motif in the novels ... The 'fat black letters' on the figurine books excite the child Dickens's imagination: 'A was an archer, and shot at a frog. ..