tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post4283807600436470161..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: The Old Curiosity Shop's villain - like a dismounted nightmareAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-16663033823689153912011-08-17T21:41:59.723-05:002011-08-17T21:41:59.723-05:00Dombey and Son has fairy tale elements, too - a bo...<i>Dombey and Son</i> has fairy tale elements, too - a boy becomes a sea spirit, for example, and the villain is half cat. I could well be missing many other examples.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-24013456351283018332011-08-17T18:29:24.849-05:002011-08-17T18:29:24.849-05:00For me, Quilp reads as some kind of pantomime/fsir...For me, Quilp reads as some kind of pantomime/fsiry tale villain which, for me, fits in with the whole feel and atmosphere of the story. I have just read 'Nicholas Nickleby' before this...just as good but in a different way. There are echoes of legend/fairy tale/ fantasy running right through this. Bakhtin would have loved it!!DarcyReturnedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16642022421381666038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-28631469742428153022008-04-07T09:46:00.000-05:002008-04-07T09:46:00.000-05:00Sometimes Dickens may go as long as 10 pages witho...Sometimes Dickens may go as long as 10 pages without something this good.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-32182677165161263572008-04-05T08:03:00.000-05:002008-04-05T08:03:00.000-05:00...like a dismounted nightmare. I'm going to have ......like a dismounted nightmare. <BR/>I'm going to have to paraphrase Nabokov on this one (he was talking about Bleak House but I think it works). No one else but Dickens could have put these words together for the same effect. Absolutely terrifying.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com