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Dickens and the Myth of the Reader (Paperback)
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Dickens and the Myth of the Reader (Paperback)
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This study explores the ways in which Dickens's published work and
his thousands of letters intersect, to shape and promote particular
myths of the reading experience, as well as redefining the status
of the writer. It shows that the boundaries between private and
public writing are subject to constant disruption and readjustment,
as recipients of letters are asked to see themselves as privileged
readers of coded text or to appropriate novels as personal letters
to themselves. Imaginative hierarchies are both questioned and
ultimately reinforced, as prefaces and letters function to create a
mythical reader who is placed in imaginative communion with the
writer of the text. But the written word itself becomes
increasingly unstable, through its association in the later novels
with evasion, fraud and even murder.
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