Charles Dickens : A Social Critic of the Victorian Era and of our Times
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Everything that happens “shows beyond mistake that you can’t shut out the world- that you are in it to be of it- that you get yourself into a false position the moment you try to sever yourself from it- and that you must mingle with it, and make the best of it, and make the best of yourself into the bargain.” Dickens in a letter to his friend Wilkie Collins dated September 6, 1858 writes of the importance of social engagement and the ultimate impossibility of fleeing from the responsibilities of this social world into some kind of private refuge.
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- Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999 (P. 61).
- Dickens, Charles. Bleak House Ware, Herdfurtshire: Wordsworth Classics, 1993 (P. 3).
- Cazamian, Louis. The Social Novel in England, 1830-1850: Dickens, Disraeli, Mrs. Gaskell, Kingsley. 1903. Translated by Martin Fido. London: Routlege and Kegan Paul, 1973. (P. 173).
- Williams, Raymond. Culture and Society, 1780-1950. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983 (P.93).
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Vijay Aind "Charles Dickens : A Social Critic of the Victorian Era and of our Times" International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology(IJSRST), Online ISSN : 2395-602X, Print ISSN : 2395-6011,Volume 1, Issue 1, pp.819-821, Year-2007_14.