Chris Louttit

Dickens's Secular Gospel

Work, Gender, and Personality

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Produktbeschreibung

The first full-length study on the subject of Dickens and work, this book reshapes our understanding of Dickens by challenging a critical oversimplification: that Dickens's attitude towards work reflects conventional expressions of Victorian earnestness of the sort attributed also to Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, and even more simplistically, Samuel Smiles. Instead, by analyzing a wide range of Dickens 's fiction and journalism in the light of new biographical and historical research, Louttit shows that Dickens is not interested in work as an abstract, positive value, or even in cataloguing it in concrete detail. What he explores instead is the human dimension of work: how, in other words, work affects the lives of those engaged in it. His writing about work is, as a result, best viewed not merely as a quasi-religious Gospel of Work, nor as an objective sociological report, but rather as what Louttit terms a "secular gospel."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780415991360
• ISBN-10: 0415991366
• Artikelnr.: 26606864

Autorenporträt

Chris Louttit is an Assistant Professor of British Literature at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Dickens, Work, and the Victorians
Chapter One: Work and the Shaping of Personality
Chapter Two: Gendering the Laboring Body
Chapter Three: Dickens and the Professions
Chapter Four: Dickens and Domestic Management
Chapter Five: Dickens's Idle Men
Epilogue: Occupation, Disguise, and Personality in Dickens's Late Novels
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index