... the Victorian novel, which can best be called "realism," with the desires, aspirations, and anxieties of its readers. For all their awareness of the contradictions involved in writing "realistic fiction" and their consciousness that language could not provide a transparent "objective" verisimilitude, novelists as realists still believed that language could represent the world beyond the text and convey a meaning ... Finn (1869), The Eustace Diamonds (1873), The Prime Minister (1876), and The Duke's Children (1880). The social transformation brought about by industrialism generated anoth...

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... problem requiring experience or maturity arises, as the Gradgrind system of education denies access to this knowledge. The Gradgrind system of education seems to wipe out any chance of any fiction or fantasy in the minds of the pupils. If Louisa or Tom happen to even have the slightest hint of fantasy or ... fiction it would be immediately be destroyed by their father who was a teacher of facts and facts alone. This is proved when Louisa and Tom were caught by their father peeping ... ...

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... not simply be known or communicated, but had to be revealed, to be forced into consciousness. And it would then be possible to set up a contrast between the fiction of the city and the fiction of the country. In the city kind, experience and community would be essentially opaque; in the country kind, essentially transparent." (Williams 202) By contrast, Thomas Hardy's Tess ... ...

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... 9, 1870, and was buried in Westminster Abbey five days later. Charles Dickens was the greatest and most popular English Author of his time. He introduced a new way of writing realistic fiction stories. Dickens's novels of modern life is shown in Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend, show an amazing ability to create living characters. His graphic exposures of ... ...

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Analysis of Hard Times By Charles Dickens Hypocrisy, pompousness and immorality, these are a few of the notions that Dickens successfully adresses and criticizes in his novel Hard Times. Yet Dickens" main point of critique is undoubtedly the upcoming idea of utilitarianism. He brilliantly plays ...

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