Dickens, Religion and Society

by Robert Butterworth

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137558701
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/21/2015
Edition description:	1st ed. 2016
Pages:	237
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

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.

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