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The Genealogy of Monsters: Martin Chuzzlewit
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Abstract
Martin Chuzzlewit is the strangest, most demanding, and funniest of Dickens’s earlier fictions, and one of the most important of all nineteenth-century novels. The title-page emphatically tells us that the book is going to be about families and inheritance: ‘The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, his relatives, friends and enemies ... showing, moreover, who inherited the family plate, who came in for the silver spoons, and who for the wooden ladles. The whole forming a complete key to the House of Chuzzlewit.’1
Title: The Genealogy of Monsters: Martin Chuzzlewit
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Abstract
Martin Chuzzlewit is the strangest, most demanding, and funniest of Dickens’s earlier fictions, and one of the most important of all nineteenth-century novels.
The title-page emphatically tells us that the book is going to be about families and inheritance: ‘The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, his relatives, friends and enemies .
showing, moreover, who inherited the family plate, who came in for the silver spoons, and who for the wooden ladles.
The whole forming a complete key to the House of Chuzzlewit.
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