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The CLiC blog showcases research and impact activities from the AHRC-funded CLiC Dickens project. We write posts summarising our research output, reporting on impact events and explaining new features of the CLiC web app.

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Author: Sophie Phelps

Sophie Phelps is a PhD candidate at Anglia Ruskin University. Her current research focuses on representations of liminality in the works of Charles Dickens. Focusing on the space in between an adult and a child, Sophie's PhD thesis argues that the creation of liminal characters was a key narrative technique used by Dickens as a way to engage with an array of controversial subject matters that sit just below the surface of the text.
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Liminality in David Copperfield

In this guest post, Sophie Phelps explores ‘liminal’ Dickensian characters who are not quite children and not quite adults, as she shows with a case study of David Copperfield’s “child-wife” Dora. We think this topic is a fantastic fit for us: questions of characterisation in Dickens’s writing are very dear to the CLiC project. Childhood is … Continue reading “Liminality in David Copperfield”

16 November 2018 by Sophie Phelps

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