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life of his age. His style is considered a photographic style. To do this he used some devices: plenty of details, long lists of objects and people, many adjectives, repetition of the most important words, use of antithetical images. Thanks to this the reader can better imagine what he is reading. Therefore, the people so well portrayed in his novels are people he had really met. The events we are told about are real events. The problems described are real problems. As a matter of facts he was a campaigning artist and he wanted to attack all the evils that surrounded him. He wrote about poverty, social problems, young and old people, rich or poor, happy and miserable. He wanted to denounce the faults of the legal system, the horrors in the factories, the exploitation of children and women, etc. WHAT WERE INSTALLMENTS? Dickens wrote many novels and he published them in installments.
Installments were parts of novels, published in magazines every week or month at a very low price. This continued for many months until the story was finished. This increased the number of readers, even among the lower classes. Publishing a novel in installments was quite common in the Victorian age. Writers had to find devices and stratagems to catch and hold the reader attention. One of these stratagems was the creation of suspense and expectation at the end of each installment. Another stratagem was the use of images in the books, to catch the attention of the readers and also to help the readers better understand the novel. Each part was therefore issued with two illustrations. Dickens worked in close collaboration with many illustrators. Dickens selected some scenes in particular to be illustrated, to provide the reader with what he considered key scenes needing emphasis.
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