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IRONY IN CHARLES DICKEN'S OLIVER TWIST

open access: yesEnglisia, 2016
This paper describes the types of irony used by Charles Dickens in his notable early work, Oliver Twist, as well as the reasons the irony was chosen. As a figurative language, irony is utilized to express one’s complex feelings without truly saying them.
Ika Kana Trisnawati   +2 more
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Before It Was ‘New’: A Neglected History of Lived Experience–Led Criminal Justice

open access: yesThe Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A growing range of criminal justice initiatives are being shaped and delivered by people with lived experience, including peer mentoring, prisoner councils and policy advocacy roles. While often seen as recent innovations, we reveal a deeper, largely unacknowledged history dating back to at least the 19th century.
Gillian Buck   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘A veritable Dickens shrine’: Commemorating Charles Dickens at the Dickens House Museum

open access: yes19, 2011
In 1925, the Dickens Fellowship founded the ‘Dickens House Museum’ at Number 48 Doughty Street, London. The site held a particular significance for Fellowship members as it was the last remaining London home of the author and the location was valued for ...
Catherine Malcolmson
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Scatasta Gino and Federica Zullo (editors), The Invention(s) of Charles Dickens: Riletture, Revisioni e Riscritture

open access: yesAltre Modernità, 2019
Scatasta Gino and Federica Zullo (editors), The Invention(s) of Charles Dickens: Riletture, Revisioni e Riscritture (Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2014, 288 pp.
Sara Gazo
doaj   +1 more source

The Dynamics of Reading Genre Fiction: Researching and Teaching Interpretive Practices

open access: yesReading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 2, April/May/June 2026.
Conceptual model positioning genre fiction as a site for studying how narrative form organizes reader interpretation, identifying four dynamics—iterability, narrative interest, serialization, and spectacle—to guide empirical research on reading processes.
Robert Jean LeBlanc, Amy Stornaiuolo
wiley   +1 more source

Patient‐reported outcomes, postoperative pain and pain relief after day‐case surgery (POPPY): baseline data from day surgery practice in the UK

open access: yesAnaesthesia, Volume 81, Issue 4, Page 477-488, April 2026.
Summary Introduction Most patients undergoing elective surgery in the UK are discharged from hospital on the same day. Despite this, there is a lack of UK patient‐centred outcome measures relating to quality of recovery, pain and analgesic use. The POPPY study was a UK‐wide prospective, observational study measuring short‐ and longer‐term patient ...
Martha Belete   +2177 more
wiley   +1 more source

Patient‐reported outcomes, postoperative pain and pain relief after day‐case surgery (POPPY): chronic post‐surgical pain prevalence and associations*

open access: yesAnaesthesia, Volume 81, Issue 4, Page 489-499, April 2026.
Summary Introduction Day‐case surgical activity is increasing in the UK yet there is a lack of data on the prevalence of chronic post‐surgical pain in this population. This study uses data from the POPPY study to estimate the prevalence of chronic post‐surgical pain after day‐case surgery, its relationship with quality of life and also explores ...
Adam B. Brayne   +2177 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE RHETORIC STRUCTURE OF CHARLES DICKENS’ SKETCHES

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism, 2016
The article is devoted to the Charles Dickens’ book “Sketches by Boz”, one of the first author’s books which collects the traits of journalism and literature.
Y V Shuyskaya
doaj  

Many Kinds of Prison: Charles Dickens on American Incarceration and Slavery

open access: yesIperstoria, 2019
When the famous British novelist Charles Dickens arrived in North America in 1842, he came at an ideal time to examine the effects of the first wave of penal reform and prison building.
Diana C. Archibald
doaj   +1 more source

Charles Dickens et le « nouveau pittoresque »

open access: yesCahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2006
The picturesque is an aesthetic ideal which became almost a cult between the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Nathalie Vanfasse
doaj   +1 more source

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