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Monthly Archives: May 2013
“Dickens and the Despised Mother: A Critical reading of Three Autobiographical Novels” by Shale Preston
Published by North Carolina: McFarland & Company Inc – Reviewed by Jennifer Gribble. Preston takes as her point of departure the childhood trauma recorded in Dickens’s autobiographical fragment, in which his mother, endowed with enduring power to dispose of him, … Continue reading