Top 10 Criticism of Charles Dickens' Novels #charlesdickens
Channel: AD's English Literature
Date: 2022-11-07

Top 10 Criticism of Charles Dickens' Novels

Charles Dickens is a good story-teller. His stories are gripping in their interest. Critics after critics have recognized and emphasized his many glaring social criticisms. However, critics have mentioned time and again several weaknesses in Dickens’ plot-construction & designs such as superfluous, verbosity, incoherence, lack of unity, improbability, abuse of coincidence, overcrowding of events, lack of logical relationship between the plot and character, subordination of plot and character, over-moralizing, etc. In this video lecture I have covered those points in Lucid English.

Highlights

What did critics say about Charles Dickens?
How does Charles Dickens criticize the class system of the Victorian era?
How are Dickens's novels typical of Victorian literature?
What problems did Charles Dickens write about?

Chapters

00:00 Introduction
05:14 Charles Dickens: Life & Works
08:11 Limited Characterization
13:56 Falsifies Reality by Imagination
15:17 Incoherent Plot Construction
16:41 Morality defeated Art
17:54 No sex in his novels
20:19 Absence of point of view
21:39 Lack of invention
23:47 No Proper Ending
25:32 Misuse of Coincidence
26:41 Superfluity
28:07 Critical Overview
32:10 Conclusion 

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Reference Reading 
1. Legouis and Cazamian~ " A History of English Literature"
2. W. Allen~ Six Great Novelists
3. G . K. Chesterton ~ Appreciation and Criticism of the Works of Charles Dickens 
4. Devid Cecil~ Early Victorian Novelists