Retrospection, Regret, and Contingency in Dickens’s Late Midlives
This essay explores Dickens’s representations of male anxieties over aging and argues both that contingency—a character’s dawning recognition that their life might have been otherwise—haunts Dickens’s midlife narratives and that a developing cultural awareness of midlife as a life-stage is central...
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| Language: | English |
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Royal Danish Library
2021-01-01
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| Series: | Age, Culture, Humanities |
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| Online Access: | https://tidsskrift.dk/ageculturehumanities/article/view/130863 |