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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
All good points. I'd love to know what Orwell would have said in response.
The piece I mentioned before must appear in a collection of his articles and essays. I still mean to hunt for it.
Even so, Dickens' value in terms of social reform doesn't rescue his fiction from resorting to bad melodrama or relying on what Forster called "flat characters" in Aspects of the Novel. I happen to think that flat characters work better in a satire than a tragedy, which is partly why I prefer Thomas Love Peacock to Charles Dickens.
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Yes, but who has ever heard of Thomas Love Peacock.
I think Dickens characters are far from flat, so there.