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Discusses the novel `Nicolas Nicleby' by Dickens. Arguments by Nancy Armstrong in her book `Desire and Domestic Fiction'; Value of women in the novel; What the characters of the book were influenced by; Celebration of the domestic virtues in the novel; Discussion of the economic survival of the 183...

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Publicado en:ELH Vol. 63; no. 1; pp. 153 - 176
Autor principal: Bowen, John
Formato: Literary Criticism
Publicado: Johns Hopkins University Press Spring96
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Sumario:Discusses the novel `Nicolas Nicleby' by Dickens. Arguments by Nancy Armstrong in her book `Desire and Domestic Fiction'; Value of women in the novel; What the characters of the book were influenced by; Celebration of the domestic virtues in the novel; Discussion of the economic survival of the 1830s in the novel; Issue of the novel's concern with inheritance.