"Jo, the outlaw with the broom": The Public and Pestiferous Role of the Vagrant in Charles Dickens's Bleak House
This article explores Charles Dickens’s unusual characterisation of vagrant figures in his novel Bleak House. Dickens conceived of the vagrant as a public entity without any recourse to private spaces — a thesis supported here by the novel and a series of satellite texts by Dickens, Henry Mayhew and...
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University of Edinburgh
2015-12-01
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| Series: | Forum |
| Online Access: | http://www.forumjournal.org/article/view/1359 |