Moral Art of Dickens: Second Edition

by Barbara Hardy

Overview

Professor Barbara Hardy is a noted critic of nineteenth-century fiction but her essays on Dickens have hitherto been scattered widely among critical journals and anthologies. The seven studies she has here collected, introduced and in part revised, together make up a sustained exploration of the moral concern which informs the novelist's work and gives to his portrayak of society and the individual its unique quality. A general discussion of the moral nature of Dickens' art leads to a study of patterns of change and conversion and this in turn to a close examination of four representative novels: Pickwick Papers, Martin Chuzzlewit, David Copperfield and Great Expectations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780485120493
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/21/2002
Edition description:	2nd Revised ed.
Pages:	178
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.37(d)

About the Author

Barbara Hardy is a poet, autobiographer and novelist, as well as a critic whose books include three on George Eliot and three on Dickens. She is Emeritus Professor at Birkbeck, University of London, Honorary Professor of the University of Wales, Swansea, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the British Academy.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Section One: General

1. Society and the Individual

2.The Change of Heart (I)

3. The Change of Heart (2)

Section Two: Particular

4. Pickwick Papers

5. Martin Chuzzlewit

6. David Copperfield

7. Great Expectations