... society. The mode focuses on interpersonal relations and the desire for social status within a society that is, paradoxically, socially stratified yet open to class mobility. Characteristically, the "great expectations" of the protagonist in Dickens's novel of the same name (1860-1861) are to rise to the higher social class of "gentleman" and to gain an independent income. In a society that praised ... daughter was not satisfied with the work and let another sculptor to modify her father's stone sideburns until they were the right length. Charles Dickens English novelist, generally con...

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