Sticks and Stones · Character
Charles Dickens
Novelist whose descriptions of cities are referenced for social critique.
minor
Also known as Dickens
First appearance: III
Charles Dickens's tie to Bassett Jones is one of the pressures that moves Sticks and Stones—worth meeting in the text, not only on a cast list.
Mentioned as being dazzled by the whiteness of colonial architecture on his first visit to America, thinking all houses were built only yesterday.
Charles Dickens first appears in 0011 iii.
With Bassett Jones (social): Jones was an architect who admired Dickens's writings, and their connection is through shared cultural circles rather than direct collaboration.
In The Heritage of the Renaissance: Mentioned as being dazzled by the whiteness of colonial architecture on his first visit to America, thinking all houses were built only yesterday.
Later, in III: Dickens is mentioned as being dazzled by the whiteness of colonial architecture on his first visit to America, thinking all the houses had been built only yesterday.
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- Social
- Other
Character groups
- Diverse Architectural Influences
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.
- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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- Bassett Jones
social · positive
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Charles Dickens appears across 6 companion beats. Open any chapter in the free preview to see the notes beside the text.
- The Heritage of the Renaissance
- III
- The Classical Myth
- The Classical Myth and the American Renaissance
- IV: The Diaspora of the Pioneer
- I
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See Charles Dickens in III