A Response to Franziska Quabeck:“The Yellow Leaf: Age and the Gothic in Dickens”

2024/11/23 by Patten, Robert L.
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paper · doi:10.25623/conn033-patten-1

Abstract

The response to Franziska Quabeck’s contribution to the debate on “Dickens and Colour” takes up a few points for further discussion and suggests that “yellow” does not always signify imprisonment in and of old age.

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