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STRUCTURE IN CHARLES DICKENS' by JENNIE RUTH OILLINCHAin, B.A. A THESIS IN ENGLISH Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Taxaa Technological Collage in Partial Tulfillmant of tha Requirements for the Degree of WASTER OF ARTS Approved Accepted August,^!966 T3 ACKNOWLEOGnCNT I am indebted to Professor Roger Leon Brooks for the ti«e and helpful crltlcisB he gave in directing this theeie* il coimiiTs x« iNTiiie^Tiei j^ "• STUOCTSIC^^^** or cwtaTiMMii, Bunnc "^' iiSrSffiS!^ eowctATco WITH m MCRO^S ^^^ SJ^JJSPKi PA^^Kwt li im ciwiwcTc«i$Tief 0lBLl06ftAI>Ny ^ iii CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION G. K. Chesterton states that Charles Dickens* writing of Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nicklebv, first published in monthly numbers in 1838«39, **coincided with . [Dickena] resolution to be a great novelist and his final belief that he could be one.**''' Chaatarton also as sarts that **it would be easy enough for Dickens, inataad of publishing 'Nicholas Nicklaby,* to have published a book of sketches, one of which was called *A Yorkshire School,' another of which was called 'A Provincial Theatre,' and another called *Sir Mulberry Hawk or High Life Re vealed,* and another called 'Plrs. Nicklaby or A Lady*8 monologue.' . • • But he did turn away from this, and tha turning-point is 'Nicholas Nicklaby.'** As a "turning- point** from a **book of akatchaa,** it is Dickens' **fir8t romantic novel bacauaa it is his first novel with a proper and dignified romantic hero; which meana, of course, a vary chivalrous young donkey** who **has no psychology,** and **not even any particular character.** On the other hand, Chesterton's defense of the book includes the *'romantic quality** in Dickens' manner of writing as a part of "the ^Charles Dickens, »«Introd.,*' Nicholas Nicklebv.
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