Dickens and Saint-Pierre: Paul et Virginie, David Copperfield, and Little Dorrit

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Tambling, Jeremy
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2025-04
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Modern Language Review
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2
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120
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189-203
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0026-7937
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This article discusses Dickens's use in Little Dorrit of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's novel Paul et Virginie (1788), and makes discussion of this fundamental for David Copperfield and Little Dorrit. The shipwreck in Paul et Virginie is identified as a source text for the storm in David Copperfield, but the article is also concerned with Saint-Pierre's contributions to questions of childhood love in the transition to puberty, and the themes of innocence and corrupt urban existence in comparison with life in a colony. It engages with questions of women's desire and men's, locating the former as thwarted in nineteenth-century English society.
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