Robert Butterworth

Dickens, Religion and Society (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Dickens, Religion and Society examines the centrality of Dickens's religious attitudes to the social criticism he is famous for, shedding new light in the process on such matters as the presentation of Fagin as a villainous Jew, the hostile portrayal of trade unions in Hard Times and Dickens's sentimentality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 237
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137558718
• Artikelnr.: 44170859

Autorenporträt

Robert Butterworth was educated at Farnworth Grammar School and the University of Leeds, and works as a lecturer in North West England. In addition to numerous articles about Dickens, he has published on other Victorian writers including Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Thomas Hood and George Gissing.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements 1. Dickens's Engagement with Religion 2. Dickens and Early
Victorian Christian Social Criticism 3. and Fagin's Jewishness 4. Christian
Social Vision in the Novels of the 1850s: , and 5. : Law, Religion and
Civilization 6. 'Oh friends and brothers': Industrialism and Trade Unionism
in 7. : Serving Mammon 8. Dickens and Politics: Temporary and Permanent
Revolution 9. and the Struggle for Brotherhood 10. and the Persistence of
Evil 11. A Note on Dickens and Sentimentality Conclusion Notes Bibliography
Index