Dickens and the American Millennium: The Uniformitarian Argument of Martin Chuzzlewit

This essay builds on recent critical discussion of Dickens’s novels in terms of the ‘uniformitarian’ and ‘catastrophist’ paradigms of time and change, then current in contemporary geological discourse. While previous scholarship has mainly focused on these ideas as they are represented in Dickens’s...

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Main Author: Nancy Aycock Metz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2012-01-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cve/12442
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