OBJECT LESSONS EDUCATION:

(Pestalozzi) IMAGINATION journalistic observation

vs FACTS

ATTACK ON
UTILITARIANISM & third-person
children as STYLE & omniscient
INDUSTRIALIZATION
moral teachers THEMES narrator

Coketown
[fictional city] HARD TIMES

happy endings caricatures

3. later novels: justice & order LACK OF REALISM?
exaggerations
MORE COMPLEX restored
BLEAK HOUSE MORE RADICAL
MORE CRITICAL
CHARLES
GREAT EXPECTATIONS DICKENS

experienced
poverty & BIOGRAPHY self-taught
DAVID COPPERFIELD 2. transition BILDUNGSROMAN
childhood matters reporter
exploitment

first success:
THE PICKWICK
1. early novels: PAPERS
SENTIMENTAL
OLIVER TWIST INVENTIVE
HUMOROUS

SLUMS
FACTORIES
WORKHOUSES

CHRISTMAS CAROL