Dickens, Religion, and Society

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements1. Dickens's Engagement with Religion2. Dickens and Early Victorian Christian Social Criticism3. and Fagin's Jewishness4. Christian Social Vision in the Novels of the 1850s: , and 5. : Law, Religion and Civilization6. 'Oh friends and brothers': Industrialism and Trade Unionism in 7. : Serving Mammon8. Dickens and Politics: Temporary and Permanent Revolution9. and the Struggle for Brotherhood10. and the Persistence of Evil11. A Note on Dickens and SentimentalityConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Robert Butterworth
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9781137558701
• ISBN: 978-1-137-55870-1
• No. of pages: 245
• Subjects: Fiction; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); B, Sociology of Religion, Fiction & related items, Fiction, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Religious issues & debates, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Religion and sociology, European Literature, Literature, Modern—19th century, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction Literature, Religion and Society, Fiction and Related items