Fortune's Wheel: Dickens and the Iconography of Women's Time

by Elizabeth A. Campbell

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This volume explores the ways that Charles Dickens appropriated and made central to his novels the dominant symbol of his age. The author argues that Dickens' contribution to the iconographic and narrative traditions was to fuse the classical image of the wheel - fortune - with the industrial one.
  • ISBN10 082141514X
  • ISBN13 9780821415146
  • Publish Date 1 January 2004
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Ohio University Press
  • Edition 1
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 216
  • Language English