Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit - the Writer’s Egress into Confessionalism
Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit - the Writer’s Egress into Confessionalism

Summary/Abstract: Our essay identifies the autobiographical elements within Dickens’s novel Little Dorrit, seen as the writer’s response to his age marked by the Industrial Revolution, the process of urbanization, and the technological development, and as one example of his concern with social issues such as poverty and marginality. A closer reading of Little Dorrit reveals a wealth of personal details, giving the novel a pronounced dimension of confessionalism: his early childhood and the first encounters with the labyrinth of Victorian society, the first-hand reports from the debtors’ prison, or the institution of the Circumlocution Office.

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