Item of Mortality: Lives Led and Unled in Oliver Twist

This essay engages with recent scholarly debates in Victorian studies focused, first, on narrative’s relationship to the optative mood, and, second, on the status of minor characters in fiction. Its reading of Oliver Twist both extends and challenges prior work by Andrew Miller and Alex Woloch, amon...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Buzard, James
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Humanities. Literature Section
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101716
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8220-4108