Chris Louttit

Dickens's Secular Gospel (eBook, PDF)

Work, Gender, and Personality

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The first full-length study on the subject of Dickens and work, this book argues that, rather than engaging with work as an abstract, quasi-religious and entirely benign value, Dickens's writings demonstrate the varied ways in which it shapes gender identity and personality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135217518
• Artikelnr.: 42982890

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