This form of publication soon became popular with other writers in Britain and the United States.ĭickens was born in Portsmouth, on England's southern coast. He thereby reached a larger audience including those who could only afford their reading on such an instalment plan. They are also some of the most masterful works in terms of artistic form, including narrative structure, repeated motifs, consistent imagery, juxtaposition of symbols, stylization of characters and settings, and command of language.ĭickens established (and made profitable) the method of first publishing novels in serial instalments in monthly magazines. Dickens's novels rank among the funniest and most gripping ever written, among the most passionate and persuasive on the topic of social justice, and among the most psychologically telling and insightful works of fiction. Eliot wrote, "Dickens's characters are real because there is no one like them." Yet though these characters range through the sentimental, grotesque, and humorous, few authors match Dickens's psychological realism and depth. Paradoxically, they often do so by being flamboyantly larger than life: The 20th-century poet and critic T. But he presents this criticism through the lives of characters that seem to live and breathe. Dickens's novels criticize the injustices of his time, especially the brutal treatment of the poor in a society sharply divided by differences of wealth.
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