The Handmade Landscape: Manual Labor and the Construction of Eden in Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit
C Wilkinson - Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on …, 2018 - scholarlypublishingcollective.org
In his 1843 novel, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dickens used the pastoral mode to deliver a strong
message about labor. To communicate this message, he employed the mode's many traits,
including its retreat into and return from the rural landscape and its focus on the country
worker, traditionally the shepherd. This essay follows the novel's pastoral retreat into the
United States, where young Martin comes to understand the realities of manual labor
through his physical interactions with the American landscape. His companion, Mark Tapley …
message about labor. To communicate this message, he employed the mode's many traits,
including its retreat into and return from the rural landscape and its focus on the country
worker, traditionally the shepherd. This essay follows the novel's pastoral retreat into the
United States, where young Martin comes to understand the realities of manual labor
through his physical interactions with the American landscape. His companion, Mark Tapley …