The Theological Dickens (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Ayres, Brenda; Maier, Sarah E.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A collection of essays that investigates Charles Dickens' views about the uses and abuses of the tenets of Christian faith that imbue English Victorian culture, regarding a myriad of controversial social issues relevant to the Victorians as well as to current readers/viewers of neo-Victorian multi-media representations

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000469370
• Artikelnr.: 62618696

Autorenporträt

Brenda Ayres, now retired from full-time residential teaching, currently teaches online for several universities. Besides the listing of publications below, her additional works can be found at Amazon, and they include her first book on Dickens Dissenting Women in Dickens' Domestic Novels: Subversion of Domestic Ideology (Praeger, 1998). She published two other books by Routledge: Victorians and Their Animals: Beast on a Leash (2019) and Animals and Their Children in Victorian Culture (2020). Sarah E. Maier is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of New Brunswick. Besides the works listed below as coeditor and coauthor, she has published extensively on the Brontës; edited special issues on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Neo-Victorian Considerations and Charlotte Brontë at the Bicentennial as well as published articles on biofiction, neo-Victorian vampires, Penny Dreadful, transmedia adaptations; Anne Lister, and neo-Victorian narratives. Brenda Ayres and Sarah E. Maier coedited and contributed chapters to the following: Neo-Victorian Madness: Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media (Palgrave, 2020); Neo-Gothic Narratives: Illusory Allusions from the Past (Anthem, 2020); Animals and Their Children in Victorian Culture (Routledge, 2020); and Reinventing Marie Corelli for the Twenty-first Century (Anthem 2019). The two cowrote A Vindication of the Redhead: The Typology of Red Hair Throughout the Literary and Visual Arts (Palgrave 2021) and will be publishing Neo-Victorian Things: Re-Imagining Nineteenth-Century Material Cultures with Palgrave in 2021 (adding Danielle Dove as coeditor).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Dickens' Theology: A Hard Nut to Crack
Brenda Ayres
1 "Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth": Dickens' Non-Christian Theology
Brenda Ayres
2 Consecrated Abominations: Pilgrimage and Churchyard Homage in Dickens'
Novels
Daniel Stuart
3 Dickens and the Specter of Materialism: The Spiritual Significance of
Ghosts in the Christmas Books and Ghost Stories
Christine Schintgen
4 Dickens Demystified: The Jesuitical Journey of Ebenezer Scrooge Through
the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola
Mary-Antoinette Smith
5 "For Whom the Bell Tolls": Dickens' Barnaby Rudge
Julie Donovan
6 "Gazing at All the Church and Chapel Going": Social Views of Religious
Nonconformity in Dickens' Fiction
Lydia Craig
7 Needful Things: Dickens, Social Justice, and the Meaning of Human Work
Susan Johnston
8 The Gospel of Modernity: Idolatry as the Road to Grace in David
Copperfield and
Great Expectations
Marie Heneghan
9 Unheavenly and Broken Homes in Dickens' Novels
Brenda Ayres
10 Ghosts of Dickens' Past: The Death of Judaism in Oliver Twist and Our
Mutual
Friend
Lindsay Katzir
11 Theological Shifts in Dickensian Narratives Before and After Darwin's
Origin:
Little Dorrit and Our Mutual Friend
Aaron K. H. Ho
12 Teeming City, Tangled Web: Dickens' Affinity with Darwin
Tony Schwab
13 Theology of the Street: Dickensian Characters for the Twenty-first
Century
SARAH E. MAIER