Angels and Absences: Child Deaths in the Nineteenth Century (88 page)

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Authors: Laurence Lerner

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4. Bret Harte, "Dickens in Camp" (1870),
Complete Poetical Works
(New York: P. F. Collier & Son, n.d.), 209.
5. Thomas Hood on
The Old Curiosity Shop, The Athenaeum
680, 7 Nov. 1840: 887.
6. Margaret Oliphant, "Charles Dickens,"
Blackwoods Magazine,
April 1855, in
Dickens: The Critical Heritage,
ed. Philip Collins (London: Routledge, 1971), 331.>
7. Forster to Dickens, 16 Jan. 1841,
Letters,
2:187.
8. Macready to Dickens, 25 Jan. 1841,
Letters,
2:193.
9. Mrs Jane Greene to Forster, c. 1872,
Letters,
Preface to vol. 2, x.
10. "H" in
Westminster Review,
April 1847, 511, in
Dickens: The Critical Heritage,
225.
11. Jeffrey to Dickens, 31 Jan. 1847, from Francis Jeffrey, Francis Jeffrey,
Life of Lord Jeffrey, with a Selection from His Correspondence. By Lord Cockburn,
Edinburgh, 1852, in
Dickens: The Critical Heritage,
217.
12.
Letters,
Preface to vol. 2, ix.
13. See, inter alia,
Roland Barthes par Roland Barthes
(Paris: Seuil, 1980), 51, 88, 142, 146; "The Death of the Author," in
Image, Music, Text,
trans. Stephen Heath (London: Fontana/Collins, 1977); "Literature and Signification," in
Critical Essays,
 
Page 234
trans. Richard Howard (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1972). I have discussed the issue further in "Literature: Coroner's Report,"
Southern Humanities Review
23 (Summer 1989): 201216.
14. Thomas Docherty,
Reading (Absent) Character
(Oxford: 1982), xiii, 31.
15. Dickens to Messrs. Chapman and Hall, 24 Nov. 1840,
Letters,
2:153.
16. Anon.,
The Man in the Moon,
March 1847, 155160, in
Dickens: The Critical Heritage,
221.
17.
Times,
7 Nov. 1817.
18. The remark was made to Ava Leverson. See Richard Ellman,
Oscar Wilde
(London: Penguin, 1988), 441.
19. Aldous Huxley, "Vulgarity in Literature,"
Collected Essays
(New York: Bantam, 1960), 113.
20. F. R. Leavis,
Dickens the Novelist
(Chatto & Windus, 1970).
21. John Carey:
The Violent Effigy
(London: Faber, 1973), 140.
22. See the discussion of
Point Counter Point
in chap. 4.
23. John Forster,
The Life of Charles Dickens
(London: Chapman & Hall, 1872), book 2, chap. 7.
24. Samuel Pickering, Jr.,
The Moral Tradition in English Fiction I785I850
(Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 1976); Andrew Sanders,
Charles Dickens: Resurrectionist
(London: Macmillan, 1982), chapter 3, note 12.
25. Carey,
The Violent Effigy,
140.

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