Charles Dickens's Pickwick Papers — Literary Relations: Sources, Analogues, Influences

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Critical Reception and Reputation

• Contemporary Critical Responses to The Early Dickens — Reviews of Sketches by Boz, Pickwick, and Oliver Twist

Charlotte Brontë

• Food in Brontë and Dickens
• Food as a Metaphor for Deeper Hungers in Pickwick and Jane Eyre
• Institutionalized Corruption in Pickwick and Jane Eyre
• Jane Eyre, Proto-Feminist vs. "The Third Person Man"
• Class Disparities and Linguistic Mannerisms in Gaskell and Dickens
• Marriage in Pickwick, Jane Eyre and North and South
• Narrative Authority in Pickwick and Jane Eyre
• Passion Versus Reason
• Pathetic Fallacy in Pickwick and Jane Eyre
• The Pride of the Servant Class in Pickwick and North and South
• Redemption from Thorns: Hope and Description in Pickwick and Jane Eyre
• Questioning Evangelical Religion in Brontë and Dickens
• The Victorian Reward — Simple Love, and Marriage with God, for a Christian Life of Toil

Thomas Carlyle

• Carlyle and Dickens on the Dark Side of Freedom of the Press

Lewis Carroll

• Golden visions in Alice and Pickwick
• Light, Darkness and Nostalgia

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

• Challenging Social Hierarchies in Pickwick and North and South
• Empiricism or Faith: Bessy Higgins and the Chancery Prisoner
• The Rebellious Servant in Dickens and Gaskell
• Sexual Imagery in Gaskell and Dickens
• [See Brontë above]

George MacDonald

• Self-Imprisonment, Pride, and Humility in Dickens and MacDonald

The Idylls of the King

• Restoring Faith in Pickwick and The Idylls
• Using the Fantastic to Convey Moral Messages

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