Abstract or Introduction
To interest and affect the general mind in behalf of anything that is clearly wrong – to stimulate and rouse the public soul to a compassionate orindignant feeling that it must not be – without obtruding any pet theory of cause and cure, and so throwing off allies as they spring up – I believe to be one of Fiction´s highest uses. And this is the use which I try to turn it. This explanation by Charles Dickens about the use of fiction describes his self-imposed duty towards the British society of Victorian England perfectly. Charles Dickens was not only a novelist. He was, because of his "extraordinary nature, the durability, and the extent of his popularity" during lifetime, obliged to "a unique – public responsibility as a writer" (Slater 49).
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- Marcus Wenzel (Author), 2013, "Bleak House" by Charles Dickens and the Dedication to a Better World, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/450703
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