![]() ![]() His most compelling diagnosis is that Dickens’s novels arise from a process close to the hallucinations of the insane (145). ![]() Though Lewes as critic insists that there can never be enough in Dickens to “move the cultivated mind” (150), as a physiologist and psychologist he keeps probing to understand Boz’s appeal. ![]() When Dickens was alive the “fastidious” critics (151) spoke and wrote about him with “condescending patronage or sneering irritation,” yet each month would turn around and “bury themselves in the ‘new number’” (143). In a Fortnightly Review article “Dickens in Relation to Criticism,” Lewes was also bothered by another contradiction. Two years after Charles Dickens’s death he wondered why, despite their “pervading commonness” (151) and “glaring” defects (143), Dickens’s novels still had “universal power” (144) and “a popularity almost unexampled” (143). “… the wayfarer in the toilsome path of human life sees, with each returning sun, some new obstacle to surmount, some new height to be attained” ( Nicholas Nickleby, Chapter 53). ![]()
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