Sentiment and Vision in Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol and The Cricket on the Hearth

This essay explores the ways in which sentimentality is manifested through the visible, and through associative functions of the eye, in two of Dickens's Christmas books of the 1840s. I situate the relationship between vision and sentiment within discourses from eighteenth-century moral philoso...

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Main Author: Heather Tilley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2007-04-01
Series:19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Online Access:http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/457