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  title info:
    title: Dickens, religion and society
  name:
    name part: Butterworth, Robert.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 237 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: Robert Butterworth.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk-en
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Dickens, Charles
      name part: 1812-1870
    topic: Religion
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Dickens, Charles
      name part: 1812-1870
    topic: Social and political views
  subject:
    topic: Religion in literature
  subject:
    topic: Social problems in literature
  subject:
    topic: Social ethics in literature
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Dickens, Charles
      name part: 1812-1870
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: Literature and society
    geographic: England
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / General
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General
  classification: PR4592.R4 B88 2016
  classification: 823/.8
  identifier: 9781137558701 (hardback)
  identifier: 1137558709 (hardback)
  identifier: 2015019854
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150616
    record change date: 20170928110421.0
    record identifier: in00003605576