Dickens, Charles (1812 - 1870) - Julian Wolfreys (Essay Date 2000)
JULIAN WOLFREYS (ESSAY DATE 2000)
SOURCE: Wolfreys, Julian. "'I Wants to Make Your Flesh Creep': Notes toward a Reading of the ComicGothic in Dickens." In Victorian Gothic: Literary and Cultural Manifestations in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Ruth Robbins and Julian Wolfreys, pp. 31-59. New York: Palgrave, 2000.
In the following excerpt, Wolfreys examines the complementary use of comedy and the Gothic in Dickens's works.
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