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PRIMITIVE CRITICISM AND THE NOVEL: G. H. LEWES AND HIPPOLYTE TAINE ON DICKENS
- Author(s):
- Peter M. Logan (see profile)
- Date:
- 2018
- Group(s):
- CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century, GS Prose Fiction, LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English, TC History and Literature, TM Literary and Cultural Theory
- Subject(s):
- Fiction, Criticism and interpretation, Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870, France, Nineteenth century, Area studies, English fiction, Literature and anthropology
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- novel, History of criticism, Dickens, lewes, taine, Novel criticism, Charles Dickens, 19th-century French studies, Victorian novel, Anthropological approaches to literature
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6DG5K
- Abstract:
- An analysis of criticism of Charles Dickens by his contemporaries G. H. Lewes and Hippolyte Taine. Both assessments address Dickens's popularity by relying on commonplace concepts from Victorian anthropology. However, Lewes argues for a new form of critical practice addressed to popular fiction and addresses the inadequacy of existing critical methods for assessing the strength of a writer like Dickens.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 6 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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