The answer to your question would be the last answer, starting with "Darkness, greed, and corruption" Charles Dickens creates this sense of darkness by the words he uses to describe the scene, such as "foul, cesspools, bad repute".
1.concerning the writing, study, or content of literature, especially of the kind valued for quality of form.
"the great literary works of the nineteenth century"
synonyms: written, poetic, artistic, dramatic
"literary works"
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(of language) associated with literary works or other formal writing; having a marked style intended to create a particular emotional effect.
synonyms: formal, written, poetic, dramatic; More
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Summary of Deep Survival: In extraordinary circumstances, like accidents or catastrophes, some people survive and others die, such that sometimes things lead you to believe that the first ones die and the second ones survive; this book explains, using numerous stories of accidents and catastrophes, and by exploring the latest scientific theories – from neuroscience to the theory of chaos – what makes one person die and another survive.
