History Literature / ThePickwickPapers

** Mr. Nupkins, the magistrate of Ipswich, is fierce and commanding when in his element, but, like Pott, is meek and submissive when it comes to his wife, who, in conjunction with their daughter, blames her husband for everything.

* FeigningIntelligence: While not unintelligent, Nathaniel Winkle touts himself as an experienced sportsman, but putting his prowess into practice shows how wholly unskilled he is, whether it be horse-riding, hunting, or skating.

%%* AmoralAttorney: Dodson and Fogg.
%%* TheAnnotatedEdition

%%* FunetikAksent: The Wellers.
%%* GoodIsDumb
%%* HeelFaceTurn: Jingle and Job, by the end.

%%* HonorBeforeReason
%%* InWhichATropeIsDescribed

%%* LighterAndSofter: Compared to other parts of Dickens' ''oeuvre''.

%%* NarrativeProfanityFilter

%%* ThePowerOfTrust: Mr. Pickwick uses this to reform Jingle and Job.

%%* UnderTheMistletoe
%%* UndyingLoyalty: Sam to Mr. Pickwick and Job to Jingle.
%%* UrbanLegendLoveLife: Tupman.
%%* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue
%%* ZanyScheme

* {{Henpecked Husband}}: Quite a number of examples, since matrimony is a recurring theme in the story.

** Mr. Pott, the editor of the Eatanswill Gazette, is verbose and powerful when writing his articles, but meek and submissive where is wife, Mrs. Pott, is concerned, especially as their isolation from society due to the former's job is a constant grievance for her.
** Mr. Nupkins, the magistrate of Ipswich, is fierce and commanding when in his public element, but, like Pott, meek and submissive when it comes to his wife, who, in conjunction with their daughter, blames her husband for everything, even when it was her idea.

* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: Jingle, who constantly speaks in sentence fragments. Broca's Aphasia?

* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: Jingle, who constantly speaks in sentence fragments.

* MysteryMeat: Dodgy meat pies were a staple of Victorian street food, and appear again here.
--> A wery good thing is weal pie, when one knows the lady what has made it, and is quite sure it ain't kittens.

-->''"Wotever is, is right, as the young nobleman sveetly remarked wen they put him down in the pension list cos his mother's uncle's vife's grandfather vunce lit the king's pipe vith a portable tinder-box."''

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* AmoralAttorney: Dodson and Fogg.
* TheAnnotatedEdition

* FunetikAksent: The Wellers.
* GoodIsDumb
* HeelFaceTurn: Jingle and Job, by the end.

* HonorBeforeReason
* InWhichATropeIsDescribed

* LighterAndSofter: Compared to other parts of Dickens' ''oeuvre''.

* NarrativeProfanityFilter

* ThePowerOfTrust: Mr. Pickwick uses this to reform Jingle and Job.

* UnderTheMistletoe
* UndyingLoyalty: Sam to Mr. Pickwick and Job to Jingle.
* UrbanLegendLoveLife: Tupman.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue
* ZanyScheme

* ChristmasCake: Miss Wardle, who gets two [[LikesOlderWomen admirers]], although only one of them is sincere. Arguably Mrs Bardell.

-->"It is a delightful thing to see affection in families, but it may be carried rather too far, and Nathaniel Pipkin could not help thinking that Maria Lobbs must be particularly fond of her relations, if she paid as much attention to all of them as to this individual cousin."

The book became a literary phenomenon, Weller became a very popular character and the book became subject to one of the earlier major cases of book piracy.

Contains the best surviving fictional account of a pre-1832 British by-election, an account of the Fleet debtors' prison that was a major eye-opener at the time and some rather good LampshadeHanging on a couple of tropes.

Creator/CharlesDickens' first novel and still one of his best known, it's a far more comedic read than his later stuff, although with strong touches of darkness, especially the Fleet Prison part of the book.

First published in 1837 (but set in 1827-28, a fact Dickens [[PresentDayPast sometimes forgot in his writing]]), it was originally a 20-part serial. It follows the misadventures of a bunch of comedy clichés as they go about southern England. Along the way, a variety of interesting side-stories are related.

* AmoralAttorney

* HeterosexualLifePartners

* MistakenDeclarationOfLove

* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: "Eatanswill"[[note]]Yes, think about the name[[/note]] the location of the by-election is stated to be a disguised East Anglian town. It's generally thought to be either Sudbury or Ipswich. Creator/GKChesterton, for this part, thought Dickens was just satirising England in general]]

* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: Jingle.
* ThePowerOfTrust

* KissingCousins: -->"It is a delightful thing to see affection in families, but it may be carried rather too far, and Nathaniel Pipkin could not help thinking that Maria Lobbs must be particularly fond of her relations, if she paid as much attention to all of them as to this individual cousin."

* KissingCousins: -> "It is a delightful thing to see affection in families, but it may be carried rather too far, and Nathaniel Pipkin could not help thinking that Maria Lobbs must be particularly fond of her relations, if she paid as much attention to all of them as to this individual cousin."

* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: "Eatanswill"[[hottip:*:Yes, think about the name]] the location of the by-election is stated to be a disguised East Anglian town. It's generally thought to be either Sudbury or Ipswich. Creator/GKChesterton, for this part, thought Dickens was just satirising England in general]]

* AdultChild: Tony Weller.

* OnceMoreWithEndnotes

* AdultChild (Tony Weller)

* BattleButler (Sam Weller is a minor version, as well as a HypercompetentSidekick)
* ChristmasCake (Miss Wardle, who gets two [[LikesOlderWomen admirers]], although only one of them is sincere. Arguably Mrs Bardell.)
* CrowningMomentOfFunny
* {{Fainting}} (the sheer amount of it and the way in which it's handled by Dickens suggests he's going for comedy)
* EnsembleDarkhorse: A matter of public record. The popularity of Sam Weller almost single-handedly kicked off Dickens' success as an author.
* FunetikAksent (the Wellers)

* LampshadeHanging (ghosts haunting the places that caused them most woe, fainting)
* LighterAndSofter (compared to other parts of Dickens' ''oeuvre'')
* LuxuryPrisonSuite (Mr Pickwick gets one in the Fleet since he can afford it, although Dickens also shows the nastier aspects of debtors' prisons)

* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed ("Eatanswill"[[hottip:*:Yes, think about the name]] the location of the by-election is stated to be a disguised East Anglian town. It's generally thought to be either Sudbury or Ipswich. G.K. Chesterton, for this part, thought Dickens was just satirising England in general]]

* PresentDayPast (Dickens has characters referencing events that haven't occurred in their world yet)
* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker (Jingle)

* UrbanLegendLoveLife (Tupman)