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Charles Dickens: Critical Essay by David Sonstroem

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Charles Dickens
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SOURCE: "Fettered Fancy in Hard Times," in PMLA, Vol. 84, No. 3, May, 1969, pp. 520-29.

In the following essay, Sonstroem identifies conflict between Factdry statistics and empirical definitionsand Fancyvariously identified with imagination, romance, wonder, and nonsense—as central to the structure of Hard Times.

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