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Dickens's Bleak House.(Charles Dickens)(Critical Essay)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 20050922
Author:Noonkester, Myron C.

It is well known that family circumstances limited the formal education undertaken by Charles Dickens. George Gissing went so far as to remark of Dickens that "with the classics he had no acquaintance." (1) If Gissing's statement is taken to indicate that Dickens was not the type of author who could effortlessly lace his works with classical references, it is no doubt correct. In view of classical allusions that inhabit Dickens's writings, however, Gissing's characterization is debatable. One such allusion occurs in Bleak House, chapter 68, when Dickens describes conditions at the ...

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