Dickens, religion, and society [electronic resource] / Robert Butterworth, independent scholar UK.
Butterworth, Robert, author.
2015
PR4592.R4 B88 2015eb
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Title Dickens, religion, and society [electronic resource] / Robert Butterworth, independent scholar UK.
Author Butterworth, Robert, author.
ISBN 9781137558718 (electronic book)
1137558717 (electronic book)
9781137558701
1137558709
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (viii, 237 pages)
Call Number PR4592.R4 B88 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 823/.8
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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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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