Racism in the work of Charles Dickens For example, in his novel "Bleak House" Dickens mocks Mrs. Jellyby, who neglects her children for the natives of a fictional African country. The disjunction between Dickens' criticism of slavery and his crude caricatures of other races has also been noted by Patrick Brantlinger in his "A Companion to the Victorian Novel". He cites Dickens' description of an Irish colony in America's Catskill mountains a mess of pigs, pots, and dunghills. Dickens views them as a "racially repellent" group. Jane Smiley writing in the Penguin Lives bio of Dickens writes "we should not interpret him as the kind of left-liberal
The Image (novel) The Image (novel) The Image (or in French "L'Image") is a classic 1956 sadomasochistic erotic novel, written by Catherine Robbe-Grillet and published under the pseudonym of Jean de Berg by éditions de Minuit in 1956. It was made into a 1973 film, "The Image", also known as "The Punishment of Anne". Edmund White considered the novel "scandalous but eloquent...metaphysical". Susan Sontag placed the text among the very few (5) erotic novels she considered to have serious artistic weight. "The Image" is centred on a triangular relationship between the male narrator and two women, Anne and Claire. The narrator is puzzled