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What impact did Dickens have upon his society? Besides getting people to yell, "please sir, I want some more" every time he walked down a street.
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Thank you We sneak Charles dickens what impact did dickens
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have on his society Lash shmoop you certainly have people
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responding what i would call effectively within a emotionally responding
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to his book so it's you know one of the
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ways in which the novels got read in this time
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during questionable literacy we have to remember that we don't
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have ninety nine percent literacy in this period like we
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do know at least in this country so one of
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the ways in which these novels got red was in
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the parlor and a parent would read it to the
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entire family and this was a way kind of like
- 00:41
our analog tell sitting down and watching telly mission together
- 00:43
a movie together and they're certainly effective responses in those
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groups and this is the way a lot of victorian
- 00:50
children would have been brought up is by reading and
- 00:53
listening to dickens not wilson I'm sure that seeped into
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reform mentality but dickens also had directly influence as i
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mentioned before with regard to benefit events where he would
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call attention to prisons into child labor He also helped
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found like a children's hospital so those with kinds of
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philanthropic things that you would do in and around london
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and then other kinds of things that he had a
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direct impact on which seem a little bit more curmudgeonly
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to us Now chickens didn't like noise and living in
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london the victorian period That was a big issue especially
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if you are a writer making your living by writing
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in your living room You wanted to be quiet So
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dickens among other things signed on with a lot of
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other very famous influential people to some of the first
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noise ordinances in london that prevented things like organ grinders
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and street music and so forth in certain neighborhoods at
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certain times so that these writers could get their work
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done on dh That was successful I mean that was
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in it a direct appeal to parliament What role did
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dickens books play in the lives of children What philanthropic
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efforts to dick and support Parents read the books How 00:02:05.88 --> [endTime] sweet
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