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
Female artist's novel from one's youth to adulthood and deals with one's emotional and personal development on the way to artistic fulfillment. As opposed to Kunstlerroman, female artist's novel focuses only on a female writer, who besides being a capable artist and creator of her own reality, is often to perform many social roles simultaneously(e.g. the role of a wife, a mother, home guardian, etc.) to meet expectations the society imposes on her. The genre itself is more gendered due to its focus on a female position. Female artist's novel Female artist's novel is a literary subtype of Kunstlerroman which can be defined