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Dickens, religion, and society /

1137558717

9781137558718

1137558709

9781137558701

9781349558513

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Dickens, religion, and society /

[Book]

Robert Butterworth, independent scholar UK

1 online resource (viii, 237 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements 1. Dickens's Engagement with Religion 2. Dickens and Early Victorian Christian Social Criticism 3. Oliver Twist and Fagin's Jewishness 4. Christian Social Vision in the Novels of the 1850s: Bleak House, Hard Times and Little Dorrit 5. Bleak House: Law, Religion and Civilization 6. 'Oh friends and brothers': Industrialism and Trade Unionism in Hard Times 7. Little Dorrit: Serving Mammon 8. Dickens and Politics: Temporary and Permanent Revolution 9. Barnaby Rudge and the Struggle for Brotherhood 10. A Tale of Two Cities and the Persistence of Evil 11. A Note on Dickens and Sentimentality Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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"Dickens's social criticism is one of the most famous and important aspects of his works. This book explores the centrality of his religious attitudes to his attacks on the social ills of his day. After discussing how deeply engaged Dickens was with his religion, the author links him to a group of political and religious campaigners who were pioneering the application of Christian moral precepts to social issues. The perspective this gave him on society is examined in detailed studies of several novels. Looking at his works from this angle sheds important new light on a number of cruxes and controversies in Dickens's oeuvre, including the portrayal of Fagin as a villainous Jew, the hostile depiction of trade unions in Hard Times, the apparent weakness of Dickens's remedy of a 'change of heart' to society's ills, and the presence of sentimentality in his novels"--

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848938

Dickens, religion, and society

9781137558701

Literature and society-- England-- History-- 19th century.

Religion in literature.

Social ethics in literature.

Social problems in literature.

LIT-- 004120

Butterworth, Robert

Ohio Library and Information Network.

20160422040110.7

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