The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep

by H.G. Parry

I became very interested in how Uriah Heep was functioning as a scapegoat for middle-class anxieties in David Copperfield, and the means by which he’s constructed as a threat to the social order,

I have no idea where it could be. Frankly, Charles, in all the times I’ve been here, I’ve never once been able to work out where you put anything.” “No,” he conceded. “Neither have I, and I live here.

“Sherlock Holmes stories are logic puzzles: his criminals are problems that only exist to be solved. Moriarty is a product of intellect, not of Victorian social evils.

There were a lot of places a dragon could have come from. They’re the oldest stories; possibly they’re older than story. Beowulf had a dragon, Norse sagas had dragons; they were part of Chinese legend and medieval folktales.

Things in writing exist. They are not always true. But they exist.