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"The strength of John's approach lies in her capacity to see the point of Dickens's anti-intellectualism without for a moment compromising her own scholarly rigor....Gothic traditions are important here, with their emphasis on passion and violence....DICKENS'S VILLAINS reminds us that Dickens's melodramatic aesthetics are not a failing in his art, but the substance of its radical appeal."John, Juliet is the author of 'Dickens's Villains Melodrama, Character, Popular Culture' with ISBN 9780199261376 and ISBN 0199261377.
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