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==Analysis== * Arthur Adrian has examined the effect on Yorkshire schools of their representation in the novel.<ref>{{cite journal | jstor=3044199 | last=Adrian | first=Arthur A. | title=''Nicholas Nickleby'' and Educational Reform | journal=Nineteenth-Century Fiction | volume=4 | issue=3 | pages=237β241 | date=1949| doi=10.2307/3044199 }}</ref> * Galia Benzimann has investigated the sociopolitical ramifications and artistic manner of Dickens depiction of Dotheboys School, in the context of boarding school education in northern England and child labour concerns in general.<ref>{{cite journal | jstor=44372228 | last=Benzimann | first=Galia | title="Feeble Pictures of an Existing Reality": The Factual Fiction of ''Nicholas Nickleby'' | journal=Texas Studies in Literature and Language | volume=45 | issue= | pages=95β112 | date=2014}}</ref> * Joseph Childers has studied the themes of commerce and business in the novel.<ref>{{cite journal | jstor=44371899 | last=Childers | first=Joseph W. | title=''Nicholas Nickleby''{{'}}s Problem of "Doux Commerce" | journal=Dickens Studies Annual | volume=25 | issue= | pages=49β65 | date=1996}}</ref> * Carolyn Dever has examined the depiction of emotional states and character in the novel via such genres as melodrama.<ref>{{cite journal | jstor=44372188 | last=Dever | first=Carolyn | title=The Gamut of Emotions from A to B: Nickleby's "Histrionic Expedition" | journal=Dickens Studies Annual | volume=39 | issue= | pages=1β16 | date=2008}}</ref> * Timothy Gilmore has analysed the presentation of capitalism and commodification in the novel.<ref>{{cite journal | jstor=44371381 | last=Gilmore | first=Timothy | title=Not Too Cheery: Dickens's Critique of Capital in ''Nicholas Nickleby'' | journal=Dickens Studies Annual | volume=44 | issue= | pages=85β109 | date=2013| doi=10.7756/dsa.044.005.85-109 }}</ref> * Richard Hannaford has discussed Dickens's use of fairy tale motifs in the novel.<ref>{{cite journal | jstor=23099589 | last=Hannaford | first=Richard | title=Fairy-tale Fantasy in ''Nicholas Nickleby'' | journal=Criticism | volume=16 | issue=3 | pages=247β259 | date=Summer 1974}}</ref> * Mark M. Hennelly Jr. has critiqued various scenes and performances of astonishment as an element of theatricality in the novel.<ref>{{cite journal | jstor=44372246 | last=Hennelly | first=Mark M. Jr. | title=Dickens's Performances of Astonishment and ''Nicholas Nickleby'' | journal=Dickens Studies Annual | volume=46 | issue= | pages=23β50 | date=2015| doi=10.7756/dsa.046.002/23-50 }}</ref> * Carol Hanbery Mackay has examined the use of techniques of melodrama in the novel.<ref>{{cite journal | jstor=45291229 | last=Mackay | first=Carol Hanbery | title=The Melodramatic Impulse in ''Nicholas Nickleby'' | journal=Dickens Studies Annual | volume=5 | issue=3 | pages=152β163 | date=September 1988}}</ref> * Andrew Mangham has studied parallels in depictions away from strict realism between William Hogarth and Dickens, in the specific context of the latter's Nicholas Nickleby.<ref>{{cite journal | jstor=10.5325/dickstudannu.48.2017.0059 | last=Mangham | first=Andrew | title=Dickens, Hogarth, and Artistic Perception: The Case of ''Nicholas Nickleby'' | journal=Dickens Studies Annual | volume=48 | issue= | pages=59β78 | date=2017| doi=10.5325/dickstudannu.48.1.0059 | s2cid=192680639 | url=http://dickens.ucsc.edu/resources/dsa/index.html | doi-access=free | url-access=subscription }}</ref> * Sylvia Manning has examined Dickens use of comic parody in contrast with more serious depictions of similar plot elements in the overall narrative.<ref>{{cite journal | jstor=44371381 | last=Manning | first=Sylvia | title=''Nicholas Nickleby'': Parody on the Plains of Syria | journal=Dickens Studies Annual | volume=23 | issue= | pages=73β92 | date=1994}}</ref> * Jerome Meckier has discussed structural aspects of the novel on two levels, the serial structure and the overall single-narrative structure.<ref>{{cite journal | jstor=44371819 | last=Meckler| first=Jerome | title=The Faint Image of Eden: The Many Worlds of ''Nicholas Nickleby'' | journal= Dickens Studies Annual | volume=1 | issue= | pages=129-146, 287-288 | date=1970}}</ref> * Tore Rem has critiqued the role of the Crummles episodes in the novel.<ref>{{cite journal | jstor=44371910 | last=Rem | first=Tore | title=Playing Around With Melodrama: The Crummles Episodes in ''Nicholas Nickleby'' | journal=Dickens Studies Annual | volume=25 | issue= | pages=267β285 | date=1996}}</ref> * Leslie Thompson has evaluated the soliloquies of Mrs. Nickleby in the novel.<ref>{{cite journal | jstor=29531330 | last=Thompson | first=Leslie M. | title=Mrs. Nickleby's Monologue: The Dichotomy of Pessimism and Optimism in ''Nicholas Nickleby'' | journal=Studies in the Novel | volume=1 | issue=2 | pages=222β229 | date=Summer 1969}}</ref> * Leona Toker has commented on the presence of elements related to the discourse on Lent, with particular relation to hunger and fasting, in the novel.<ref>{{cite journal | jstor=44372174 | last=Toker | first=Leone | title=''Nicholas Nickleby'' and the Discourse of Lent | journal= Dickens Studies Annual | volume=38 | issue= | pages=19β33 | date=2007}}</ref>
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