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Fortunes Wheel: Dickens and the Iconography of Womens Time

Brand: Ohio University Press

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UPC:
9780821415146
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication Date:
2003-10-22
Author:
Elizabeth A. Campbell
Language:
english
Edition:
1
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This volume explores the ways that Charles Dickens appropriated and made central to his novels the dominant symbol of his age. The author argues that Dickens' contribution to the iconographic and narrative traditions was to fuse the classical image of the wheel - fortune - with the industrial one.