Item of Mortality: Lives Led and Unled in Oliver Twist
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Author(s)
Buzard, James
Date Issued
2014
Journal
ELH
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Citation
Buzard, James. "Item of Mortality: Lives Led and Unled in Oliver Twist." ELH 81.4 (Winter 2014). © 2014 The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Final published version
Abstract
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, among others. With particular emphasis on the protagonist’s minor alter-ego, Dick, the essay considers what difference fictional mode makes to the possibility of anything else’s happening to a character than what we read about him or her.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Humanities. Literature Section
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
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