%0 Journal Article
%T The Game of Irony in Charles DickensĄŻ Novels
%A Ioana Boghian
%J LiBRI : Linguistic and Literary Broad Research and Innovation
%D 2010
%I 
%X The paper aims at identifying the three types of irony ¨C verbal, dramatic and of situation ¨C in some of Charles DickensĄŻ novels in order to reveal the authorĄŻs contribution to the modern understanding of Victorianism. The ironic discourse will be analyzed so as to show the true underlying meaning of DickensĄŻ texts. It is said that Dickens revealed through irony more than historians could have ever revealed through direct telling, and to show whether this is true or not represents the purpose of the current paper. As far as Victorianism is concerned, the first major paradigms which irony is aimed at are precisely Victorian respectability, domesticity and stability.
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