The Possibility of Postcolonial Sympathy in Little Dorrit : Reading Dickens for a Reconciliation between Richard Rorty and Homi Bhabha

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Author	Wakazawa, Yusuke
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	Dickens is perceived to be an outstanding novelist who developed a language of sentiments in English literature. In his analysis of obituaries for Dickens circulating in 1870, Philip Collins points out that Dickensʼs contemporaries discussed “the quality of his pathos” as the central question in the critical assessment of his works, while also acknowledging “[t] he moral decency of his sentiments” (503). In this respect, the relation of sentimentalism to morality has been one of the essential issues in Dickens studies ever since his death. In Dickens and the Sentimental Tradition (2012), however, Valerie Purton claims that, after the twentieth century, a new intellectual current outside Dickens studies prompts a different focus on his language of sentiments:
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