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Correia, Lucia (2022)

Dickens’ Criticism of the Victorian Legal System: Reformist or Revolutionist in Bleak House and Great Expectations

Bachelor thesis | Engelse taal en cultuur (BA)
The thesis deals with Dickens' commitment to expose and criticise the inequities of the British legal system in the 19th century. It provides insight into Dickens' fictional account of the Court of Chancery and the Jarndyce and Jarndyce lawsuit in "Bleak House", and into the harmful effects of the criminalisation of the poor in "Great Expectations". Furthermore, it offers an analysis of specific moments of the novels in order to demonstrate Dickens' role in raising his readers' awareness of the social injustices of their time.
Dickens
criticism
social justice
Victorian Age
legal system
Bleak House
Great Expectations
Author
Correia, Lucia
Faculty
Faculty of Humanities
Specialisation
Literature
Supervisors

Korovsky Moura, F.
Dam, H.D.J. van

ECTS Credits
10
Language
en