He added "I .......... (be) still pretty obsessed with Dicken' s works".
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Dickens was notoriously reticent on the subject of aesthetics. There is, in the whole of his work, very little philosophizing about the nature of art or beauty. This reticence means that what Dickens understood by art must be inferred from his fiction and this inference leads directly to the startling observation that the few times when Dickens does raise issues of aesthetics in his fiction occur within the context of violent death. In fact, virtually the only characters in the Dickensian canon who are self-proclaimed as artists are those who make a profession of death—Mr. Venus in Our Mutual Friend and Dennis the Hangman in Barnaby Rudge. This essay explores the paradoxical association of art, extinction, and execution in Dickens's fiction. It suggests that by yoking the three, Dickens was speaking indirectly of his own novelistic enterprise and that Dickens's fascination with such gruesome topics as dismemberment, dissection, and decapitation had implications for his literary style, so that a study of these matters may contribute to our understanding of his aesthetic beliefs.
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Founded in 1970, the centennial anniversary of Dickens's death, Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction publishes articles exploring the wide range of Dickens's interests and talents. The journal includes essays on other mid- and late-nineteenth century novelists and on the history and aesthetics of the period's fiction. Each volume also contains a solicited review article examining much of a prior year’s scholarship on Dickens. Periodically, Dickens Studies Annual publishes solicited surveys of studies of other Victorian authors. The journal is intended to be of interest to both students and scholars at various stages of their careers.
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Part of the Pennsylvania State University and a division of the Penn State University Libraries and Scholarly Communications, Penn State University Press serves the University community, the citizens of Pennsylvania, and scholars worldwide by advancing scholarly communication in the core liberal arts disciplines of the humanities and social sciences. The Press unites with alumni, friends, faculty, and staff to chronicle the University's life and history. And as part of a land-grant and state-supported institution, the Press develops both scholarly and popular publications about Pennsylvania, all designed to foster a better understanding of the state's history, culture, and environment.
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He added " I am still pretty obsessed with Dickens's
works ".