... the Great Exhibition, an event through which England could boast, according to the Times, "of that day when all ages and climes shall be gathered round the throne of the maker" (Schlicke, p48). Dickens was most certainly not to be found amongst this inertia of idol worship. For the novelist, the year was not one that should inspire celebration or self ... in creation. He is of no order and no place" (BH 724). The Methodist Magazine stated that "as all the letters make one word, and all the words make one book, - and the use of letters, syllables, words and sentences cannot be rihtly und...

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