De l’innocence à la malveillance chez Charles Dickens

This article looks at representations of in-nocentia in the works of Charles Dickens and discusses the variety of situations and plot twists engineered to endanger or confirm it, with particular emphasis on Dickens’s original departure from the picaresque tradition in child portraiture. The diachron...

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Main Author: Christine Huguet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2004-04-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cve/16604
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Summary:This article looks at representations of in-nocentia in the works of Charles Dickens and discusses the variety of situations and plot twists engineered to endanger or confirm it, with particular emphasis on Dickens’s original departure from the picaresque tradition in child portraiture. The diachronic survey of Dickens’s exploration of changeability also provides a clue to his (largely implicit) theology.
ISSN:0220-5610
2271-6149