English literature summary
to
work
at
a
shoe-‐blackening
factory
after
his
father
was
arrested
for
debt.
This
helped
form
his
personality
and
also
gave
material
for
his
writings.
His
novels
are
a
mixture
of
romantic
and
realist
elements.
His
writing
is
satirical
(form
of
humorous
criticism),
ironic
(inconsistencies
btwn
what
is
said
and
what
is
meant)
and
funny
and
criticizes
some
social
evil.
Oliver
Twist
opposes
workhouses;
Nicholas
Nickleby
concentrates
on
children’s
education
in
boarding
schools.
Child
characters
–
not
used
as
protagonists
before
him.
1842
Dickens
goes
to
America
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