Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism


Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens | Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Currie, Richard A. “‘As If She Had Done Him a Wrong’: Hidden Rage and Object Protection in Dickens's Amy Dorrit.” English Studies 72, no. 4 (August 1991): 368-76.

Suggests Little Dorrit is neither a saintly figure nor a sentimental heroine; she is, rather, a woman filled with repressed anger and resentment.

Daleski, H. M. “Large Loose Baggy Monsters and Little Dorrit.Dickens Studies Annual 21 (1992): 131-42.

Attempts to account for the many contradictions and ambiguities in Little Dorrit.

Duckworth, Alistair M. “Little Dorrit and the Question of Closure.” Nineteenth-Century Fiction 33, no. 1 (June 1978): 110-30.

Examines the question of whether Little Dorrit offers a conclusion that lends itself to a stable interpretation of its meaning.

Dvorak, Wilfred P. “The Misunderstood Pancks: Money and the Rhetoric of...

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