Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens | Brian Rosenberg (essay date 1996)
Brian Rosenberg (essay date 1996)
SOURCE: Rosenberg, Brian. “‘Immeshed in Uncertainties’: The Double Life of Little Dorrit.” In Little Dorrit's Shadows: Character and Contradiction in Dickens, pp. 31-48. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996.
[In the following excerpt, Rosenberg examines the prominence of contradiction and division within the characters in Little Dorrit.]
With the single exception of Little Dorrit there is not one of [Dickens's] numerous stories that has not touches of the masterhand and strokes of indisputable genius.
—Unsigned obituary of Dickens, published June 11, 1870, in the Saturday Review
The decision to center a study of Dickens's characters upon Little Dorrit raises two obvious questions: why focus primarily on a single novel and why, given the many possibilities, on Little Dorrit in particular? To neither question is...
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