SOURCE: Showalter, Elaine. “Guilt, Authority, and the Shadows of Little Dorrit.” Nineteenth-Century Fiction 34, no. 1 (June 1979): 20-40.
In the following essay, Showalter characterizes the shadow motif in Little Dorrit as emblematic of the spiritual darkness of Victorian society.
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