Pickwickian Manners and Customs
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Percy Fitzgerald uses the world of Pickwick to measure changes in everyday life. His literary commentary examines the inns, coaches, clothes and public customs found in Dickens's fiction, comparing them with conditions in his own day. Debtors' prisons and election practices receive attention alongside servants' uniforms and elaborate accessories. These small details support his larger argument that a comic novel can preserve a record of social habits.
He also traces the characters' travels through places including Rochester, Ipswich, Bath and Birmingham, treating their movements almost like entries in a diary. Fitzgerald connects the scenes with Dickens's childhood, legal work and reporting, presenting these experiences as sources for the story's people and settings.
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- Author
- Percy Fitzgerald
- Reading time
- About 90 minutes
- Pages
- 46
- Language
- English
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