“Looking on darkness which the blind do see”: the Figure of the Blind Girl in Dickens and the Dickensian
The article focuses on the theme of blindness in Dickens’s American Notes (1842) and in The Cricket on the Hearth (1845): sight impairment is treated as a vehicle to carry the reader from landscape to inscape, staging at once truth and deception, blindness and insight. Such dramatic irony is also th...
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| Language: | English |
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Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
2016-06-01
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| Series: | E-REA |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/erea/4915 |