... and journalism has for many years shaped Dickens as a pioneer of the working-class movments, and almost voice box for their many grievances and sufferings. However it is debatable how far Dickens can actually be considered as this advocate of working class identity and point of view. At times his impassioned tone stops short of being anything but a sympathetic and pitying sentiment. By exploring the ... potential threat of the lower classes, the exclusion from the political and literary world, the bonds that exist between them and ... that both appear far from human. They are giving gr...

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