Abstract
For most of his career, Dickens was fascinated by the subject of heredity. Allusions to heredity occur frequently – almost obsessively – in the novels: “He had stamped his likeness on a little boy,” “My girls are pictures of their dear mother,” both from The Pickwick Papers. “Humanity is a happy lot when we can repeat ourselves in others” (Barnaby Rudge). “In this daughter the mother lived again” {The Old Curiosity Shop). “He would be as like his father as it’s possible to be, if he was not so like his mother too” (David Copperfield). And these few quotes barely skim the top of the barrel. Phrases such as “the express image,” “the living copy,” “the speaking likeness” occur over and over again, defining the relationship between parents and children as one of near-perfect duplication.
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