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picaresque mode in dickens novels?

picaresque mode in dickens novels

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The picaresque novel (Spanish: “picaresca”, from “pícaro”, for “rogue” or “rascal”) is a popular subgenre of prose fiction which is usually satirical and depicts in realistic and often humorous detail the adventures of a roguish hero of low social class who lives by his or her wits in a corrupt society. This style of novel originated in Spain and flourished in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries and continues to influence modern literature.

Rascally Charles Dickens characters:

Oliver Twist

David Coperfield

PIp

Perhaps the origination of the colloquialism “You little dickens”

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