Charles Dickens as an agent of change

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Label

Charles Dickens as an agent of change

Statement of responsibility

edited by Joachim Frenk and Lena Steveker

Contributor

• Steveker, Lena, 1976-
• Frenk, Joachim, 1966-

Editor

• Steveker, Lena, 1976-
• Frenk, Joachim, 1966-

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Political and social views -- Congresses
• England
• England
• History
• History
• Literature and society
• Literature and society
• Literature and society -- England -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses
• Political and social views
• Political and social views
• Social problems in literature
• Social problems in literature
• Social problems in literature -- Congresses

Genre

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• History
• Congresses

Language

eng

Summary

"The volume comes out of a 2010 Dickens conference at the editors' institution and brings together deceased, senior, mid-career, and a couple of junior Dickens scholars from the Anglophone and German literary critical traditions. During his career as a writer and a public figure, Charles Dickens witnessed unprecedented social and economic changes, becoming ever more dissatisfied with English society as a whole. His works, bursting with restless energy and protean style, registered and commented on the ceaseless changes in the Victorian world. As a documentarian, a melodramatist, a satirist, and a crusading moralist, Dickens both chronicled the transformations around him and advocated for radical changes to British laws and attitudes in order to minimize the malign impact of modern industrial capitalism. Bringing together an international group of Dickens scholars, this volume highlights the many ways in which the notion of change has found entry into and is negotiated within Dickens's works. The contributors explore Dickens as an agent of change in four aspects: social change, political and ideological change, literary change, and cultural change. In an afterword, Edgar Rosenberg adds a personal account of how Dickens changed the life of one eminent Dickensian"--

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

NIC/DLC

Dewey number

823/.8

Index

index present

LC call number

PR4592.S58

LC item number

C48 2019

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography