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Review\n\nReviewed Work(s):The Sense of an Audience:Dickens,Thackeray,and George Eliot at Mid-Century by Janice Carlisle  \nReview by:F.S.Schwarzbach  \nSource:Dickens Quarterly,March,1984,Vol.1,No.1(March,1984),pp.22-24  \nPublished by:The Johns Hopkins University Press  \nStable URL:https://www.jstor.org/stable/45290908                  \nJSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars,researchers,and students discover,use,and build upon a widerange of content in a trusted digital archive.We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and.facilitate new forms of scholarship.For more information about JSTOR,please contact support@jstor.org  \nYour use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms &Conditions of Use,available athttps://about.jstor.org/terms  \nThe Johns Hopkins University Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize,preserve and extend access toDickens Quarterly  \nkeray is so good that the chapter on Dickens is so disappointing.Gilmour tracesthe evolution of the Gentleman through the whole Thackeray canon then turns aroundand discusses one Dickens novel,Great Expectations.  \nThe chapter begins with biographical criticism stressing how whereas Thackeraydescribed the Gentleman from the inside,Dickens,because of his evolution fromthe Blacking Factory to the Ellen Ternan affair,could only describe the Gentlemanfrom the point of view of an outsider.In Great Expectations,Dickens \"found a fic-tional form capable.of expressing the social ironies underlying both his own and hisgeneration's preoccupation with the idea of the gentleman”(107).Gilmour sees \"thegentlemanly idea\"in Great Expectations defined by two major themes“—the themeof inheritance and the relationship between respectable society and the social under-world”(113).But the most interesting point that Gilmour makes concerns the obses-sive violence—\"No other work of Dickens ...is so impregnated with violence,latent or actual,or so imaginatively aware of the gradations between the primitiveand the refined”(130)—of Great Expectations.For Gilmour,the  \ndeepest irony of Great Expectations is Dickens's location of gentility in a contextof violence-a violence that is defined in symbolic,almost Blake-like terms,asboth creative and destructive,having its positive source in the life of instinct,energy,physical passion as well as its negative manifestation in the barbarismof a brutal society.(141-2)  \nWalder's Dickens and Religion is an overlong,workmanlike book,which becauseof its dull style,its text-cluttering references,and its repetitiveness,is somewhat hardto slog through.Yet,as in the dust heaps of Our Mutual Friend,valuable thingsare buried in there.Gilmour's subject is more interesting and his interpretations moreoriginal and perceptive,but,for the Dickensian,the book will be a disappointment.His chapter on Great Expectations makes one exciting connection—that of the ideaof the Gentleman as a reaction against violence.Dickens's career is as elaborate andvaried as a Regency waistcoat,but Gilmour has only given us one epaulette.  \nPurdue UniversityWilliam J.Palmer  \nJanice Carlisle.The Sense of an Audience:Dickens,Thackeray,and George Eliotat Mid-Century.Athens,Ga.:The University of Georgia Press,1981.Pp.xi+242.$19.50.  \nNot all interesting critical works originate in entirely new perceptions or novel in-sights;some begin instead with rather a commonplace generalization,one so wellknown that it is rarely given serious consideration,and subject it to careful scrutinyand analysis.Janice Carlisle's The Sense of an Audience is such a work,proceedingfrom the observation that Victorian novelists conceived of their art as essentially amoral one.Literature has always(or almost always)aimed to delight and instruct,but,as Carlisle reminds us,in the middle decades of the nineteenth century writersfelt they had a special responsibility to leave the reader a better,more productive,more socially aware 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