Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 18 AIL 1733 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Dickens and the Victorian Novel
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The idea
Unit eleven worked his opening of Hard Times for its repetition, its geometry, and its family of commercial metaphors. Dickens wrote long, serialised, socially argumentative novels, and that opening is characteristic of the whole band's prose ambition.
In practice
Long, serialised, argumentative.
Where people slip
Unit eleven worked the method.
Your place on the trail
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