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Charles Dickens: A Critical Study
This work delves into the life and works of Charles Dickens, reflecting on the social and literary context of the Victorian era.
"Charles Dickens: A Critical Study" by G. K. Chesterton is a literary criticism. This work delves into the life and works of Charles Dickens, reflecting on the social and literary context of the Victorian era.
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Much of our modern difficulty, in religion and other things, arises merely from this, that we confuse the word “indefinable” with the word “vague.” If some one speaks of a spiritual fact as “indefinable” we promptly picture something misty, a cloud with indeterminate edges. But this is an error even in common-place logic. The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact. It is our arms and legs, our pots and pans, that are indefinable. The indefinable is the indisputable. The man next door is indefinable, because he is too actual to be defined. And there are some to whom spiritual things have the same fierce and practical proximity; some to whom God is too actual to be defined.
Contents
- 01Chapter I the Dickens Period
- 02Chapter II the Boyhood of Dickens
- 03Chapter III the Youth of Dickens
- 04Chapter IV “the Pickwick Papers”
- 05Chapter V the Great Popularity
- 06Chapter VI Dickens and America
- 07Chapter VII Dickens and Christmas
- 08Chapter VIII the Time of Transition
- 09Chapter IX Later Life and Works
- 10Chapter X the Great Dickens Characters
- 11Chapter XI on the Alleged Optimism of Dickens
- 12Chapter XII a Note on the Future of Dickens
- 13Transcriber’s Notes
About this edition
- Author
- G. K. Chesterton
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
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- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 172 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers