English Literature / Unit 15 ENL 1449 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Dickens's Women and the Critics
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The idea
The anchor judges that Dickens's characters often reveal the biases of his age, particularly gender biases for and against the virtuous woman. Readers should therefore read his idealized heroines and his fallen women as products of Victorian assumptions.
In practice
The angel and the fallen woman.
Where people slip
This is the anchor's judgment.
Your place on the trail
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