Comments on: Dickens’ Oliver Twist: an excerpt http://blog.oup.com/2012/02/dickens-oliver-twist-an-excerpt/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Fri, 17 May 2013 12:26:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Matthew (@thebibliofreak) http://blog.oup.com/2012/02/dickens-oliver-twist-an-excerpt/#comment-250460 Matthew (@thebibliofreak) Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:12:15 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=21035#comment-250460 In order to celebrate Dickens's bicentenary, I've just made the commitment to read as many of his classics as possible - starting with Oliver Twist! Thanks for the excerpt to get me on my way, I look forward to a year of literary indulgence :) In order to celebrate Dickens’s bicentenary, I’ve just made the commitment to read as many of his classics as possible – starting with Oliver Twist! Thanks for the excerpt to get me on my way, I look forward to a year of literary indulgence :)

]]> By: MRITYUNJAY JHA http://blog.oup.com/2012/02/dickens-oliver-twist-an-excerpt/#comment-249787 MRITYUNJAY JHA Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:43:03 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=21035#comment-249787 DICKENS IS ARGUABLY THE MOST POPULAR OF ALL ENGLISH NOVELISTS TILL DATE!THIS ENDURING ENIGMA OF CHARLES DICKENS IN ITSELF IS A TELLING EXAMPLE OF WHO HE WAS N WHAT HE MEANS TO THE READER TODAY -200 YEARS AFTER HE WAS BORN ON 7TH FEBRUARY 1812 IN PORTSMOUTH,ENGLAND! DICKENS WAS THE MAIN REPRESENTATIVE VOICE OF WHAT WE CALL 'VICTORIAN-ERA' OR 'VICTORIANISM' OR 'VICTORIANA'! HE WAS VERY KEEN OBSERVER OF HIS TIMES AND THE ABSURDITIES THEREOF!A GREAT HUMANIST,DICKENS PORTRAYED SOCIAL EVILS AND SOCIETAL ILLS OF HIS TIMES IN GREAT ACCURATE DETAILS.HE WAS NOT A PREACHER,THOUGH. . .JUST AN AUTHENTIC SPOKESMAN OF THE VICTORIAN BRITAIN. HIS NOVELS LIKE ' OLIVER-TWIST' WERE VERY INSTRUMENTAL IN HASTENING REFORMS LIKE THE LITERACY,LABOR REFORMS!WHEN HE WROTE HIS FIRST NOVEL, THE BRITISH LITERACY RATE WAS AROUND 50 PERCENT. . .WHEN HE DIED AT D AGE OF 58,THE LITERACY RATE WAS IN NINETIES! DICKENS IS ARGUABLY THE MOST POPULAR OF ALL ENGLISH NOVELISTS TILL DATE!THIS ENDURING ENIGMA OF CHARLES DICKENS IN ITSELF IS A TELLING EXAMPLE OF WHO HE WAS N WHAT HE MEANS TO THE READER TODAY -200 YEARS AFTER HE WAS BORN ON 7TH FEBRUARY 1812 IN PORTSMOUTH,ENGLAND!

DICKENS WAS THE MAIN REPRESENTATIVE VOICE OF WHAT WE CALL ‘VICTORIAN-ERA’ OR ‘VICTORIANISM’ OR ‘VICTORIANA’!
HE WAS VERY KEEN OBSERVER OF HIS TIMES AND THE ABSURDITIES THEREOF!A GREAT HUMANIST,DICKENS PORTRAYED SOCIAL EVILS AND SOCIETAL ILLS OF HIS TIMES IN GREAT ACCURATE DETAILS.HE WAS NOT A PREACHER,THOUGH. . .JUST AN AUTHENTIC SPOKESMAN OF THE VICTORIAN BRITAIN.
HIS NOVELS LIKE ‘ OLIVER-TWIST’ WERE VERY INSTRUMENTAL IN HASTENING REFORMS LIKE THE LITERACY,LABOR REFORMS!WHEN HE WROTE HIS FIRST NOVEL, THE BRITISH LITERACY RATE WAS AROUND 50 PERCENT. . .WHEN HE DIED AT D AGE OF 58,THE LITERACY RATE WAS IN NINETIES!

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