John James Bezer (1816–1888) and his Autobiography of One of the Chartist Rebels of 1848 (1851) by Madeleine Pham-Thanh

“…In particular, it showcases his stylistic inventiveness, from the assumption that his idiolect contributes to the (re-)making of a popular counter-cultural sociolect. Most of all, it highlights the struggles of a popular, self-educated, unrepentant radical, to regain, through autobiographical reconstruction, the agency he was denied as a social and political marginal. …”
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Ambivalent Father Figures and the Enigma of Male Identity in Dickens’s Fiction by Max Véga-Ritter

“…It throws light on the way Dickens functioned in his earlier novels ambivalently or irresolutely, but alternately, on two opposite poles of his mind, those of self-identification with the benign—but eventually possibly inadequate—father image in the Pickwick Papers—the second Scrooge—or of a counter identification with its opposite negative image—the Rebels—in Oliver Twist, leaving the question of sex identity open or in a state of conundrum. …”
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The Contemporary Critical Reception of Walter Pater: Retrospective and Proleptical Views by Geoffrey Sadock

“…As Pater’s response to the beautiful, in art and life, becomes better understood, it will be seen that he is at once the culmination of a long line of theoretical rebels and the beginning of a post-modern, existential methodology that values art after the debacle of the 20th century and the collapse of ideologies that once sought to discredit him. …”
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