Mackenzie Diane Koontz

Angelic and Demonic Womanhood: The Provocative Power of Convergent Identities in Dombey and Son

Plenty has been written about how Dickens divided his woman characters into two primary types—the angel in the house and the fallen woman—and how this binary categorization produces a lack of female agency in Dickens’s works due to the predictable fates these women meet: marriage and domestic bliss for the angel in t...