Charles Dickens as a Novelist

1. Charles Dickens as a Novelist
By Gopi Dervaliya

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● Name : Gopi Dervaliya
● Roll no. 09
● Sem : 1
● Paper Name : History of English Literature –
From 1350 to 1900
● Paper no. : 105
● Paper Code : 22396
● Submitted to : S. B. Gardi Department of English
● Email : gopidervaliya02@gmail.com

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❏ Dickens early life :
● Dickens was born 7 February, 1812,
Englend.
● At the age of six Dickens was sent to
school, where he discovered classical
authors and developed a love of reading.
● At age nine Dickens discovered the theater
and developed a passion for the stage.

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● At age twelve, Dickens had to
leave school and was sent to
work at a blacking warehouse
gluing labels on bottles of shoe
polish.
● When his father was released
from prison, Dickens returned to
school.

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❏ His famous works :
● Bleak House (1853)
● The tragedies of Bleak
House, one of his last and
gloomiest books, are
found in the systematic
injustice of the courts.

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❏ David Copperfield (1850)
❏ The Personal History of David
Copperfield, a highly
autobiographical novel,
demonstrates a darker outlook,
more serious themes, and a
change to more character-driven
plots.

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● Great Expectations (1861)
● Originally conceived as a comic
novel to bail out Dickens's
failing magazine All Year
Round, Great Expectations
became Dickens's masterpiece.

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● Oliver Twist (1839)
● Dickens's first novel,
Oliver Twist, focuses on
the unfairness of laws
governing the poor.

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● A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
● The novel takes place during
the French Revolution,
although Dickens treats the
political situation more as a
backdrop than an inherent
part of the story.

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● There is hardly any novel on the self of a well-stocked library
which has been read more than his David Copperfield, Oliver
Twist, The Old Curiosity Shop, or even Picwick Papers.
● As a novelist, Dickens is a social chronicler. Social conscience
is the first strength of his fictional world.
● He is found to have introduced social novels in a much broader
sense.
● Before him, in the literary history of the eighteenth century, the
novel is more or less concerned with individual love, happiness,
suffering, tragedy, and so on.
❏ As a Novelist :

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● In the second place, Dickens’s contribution to the world of
fiction is found in his gift of story-telling.In the sphere of
story-telling, Dickens’s influence is far-reaching.
● Another element which shows Dickens’s contribution to the
art of novel-writing is his priceless gift of humour with which
his fictional world is enriched.
● One more remarkable feature of Dickens’s creative strength is
the intensely forceful emotional power with which much of his
fiction is inspired.
● This is well marked in his treatment of love, integrity, death
and suffering and noble self-sacrifice.

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● Coliseum Theatre, in London, when plays and
tableaux portraying scenes and incidents from his
works were presented in a way to touch and win
men's hearts.
● Preferences have been expressed by some that
Dickens should have chosen some of his characters
from a higher social stratum than that in which he
delved so continuously and so successfully.
● Dickens was largely a self-made man.

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● From a boy he dreamed that some day he would be
a great man.
● That dream was never dissipated through all the
early years of struggle.
● He was destined, he believed, for something better
than pasting labels on blacking bottles.
● The dream deepened into an ambition, and was
transmuted into a purpose.

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❏ Work Cited :
● "Dickens, Charles 1812-1870 ." Children's Literature
Review. . Encyclopedia.com. 17 Oct. 2022
<https://www.encyclopedia.com>.
● WALLACE, R. W. “CHARLES DICKENS:
BRILLIANT BRITISH NOVELIST.” The Journal of
Education, vol. 75, no. 5 (1865), 1912, pp. 117–18.
JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/42819463.
Accessed 18 Oct. 2022.