How does dickens make the reader interested in life in victorian england ?
He does it by not trying. He’s writing stories about the world he lived in, and in which his readership lived. If his stories weren’t true to life, or at least set in recognisable backgrounds, he would not have been anything like as popular during his lifetime. So I get interested because I feel that was closer to the truth than many more formal history books, where the authors are all too often selective in their facts to support whatever their hobbyhorse may be.
