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Charles Dickens' Novels In The Courts, Douglas E. Abrams
Charles Dickens' Novels In The Courts, Douglas E. Abrams
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This article examines written judicial opinions that contain references to novels by Charles Dickens (1812-1870), the British novelist and social critic who is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of the Victorian Age. Americans today still read Dickens’ best-known novels, and the U.S. Supreme Court and the lower federal and state courts have cited and quoted from them.