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Title Charles Dickens as an agent of change / edited by Joachim Frenk and Lena Steveker.

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019.

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 242 pages)
Note Papers originally presented at a conference held in June 2010 at Universität des Saarlandes.
"Originally published in 2015 by AMS Press, Inc."--Title page verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Repetitions and reversals : patterns for social change in Pickwick papers / Jerome Meckier -- Three revolutions : alternate routes to social change in Bleak house / Joel J. Brattin -- Dickens, society, and art : change in Dickens's view of effecting social reform / Robert Heaman -- The world changing Dickens, Dickens changing the world / Bert Hornback -- Parrots, birds of prey, and snorting cattle : Dickens's Whig agenda / David Paroissien -- The tremendous potency of the small : Dickens, the individual, and social change in a post-America, post-catastrophist age / Nancy Aycock Metz -- Money, power, and appearance in Dombey and son / Michael Hollington -- The passing of the Pickwick moment / Malcolm Andrews -- The chimes and the rhythm of life / Matthias Bauer -- Radical Dickens : Dickens and the tradition of romantic radicalism / Norbert Lennartz -- Modern characters in the late novels of Charles Dickens / Herbert Foltinek -- The cultural politics of Dickens's Hard times / Doris Feldmann -- Conjuring Dickens : magic, intellectual property, and The old curiosity shop / Christopher Pittard -- Popular Dickens : changing Bleak house for the East End stage / Chris Louttit -- The frozen deep : Gad's Hill, June-July 1857 / Robert Tracy -- How to read Dickens in English : a last retrospect / Edgar Rosenberg.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Note Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 26, 2019).
Subject Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses.
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Political and social views -- Congresses.
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. (OCoLC)fst00028294
Literature and society -- England -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.
Social problems in literature -- Congresses.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
Literature and society. (OCoLC)fst01000096
Political and social views. (OCoLC)fst01353986
Social problems in literature. (OCoLC)fst01122806
England. (OCoLC)fst01219920
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings. (OCoLC)fst01423772
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Frenk, Joachim, 1966- editor.
Steveker, Lena, 1976- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Charles Dickens as an agent of change. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019 9781501736278 (DLC) 2018047983
ISBN 1501736299 (electronic book)
9781501736292 (electronic book)
9781501736308 (kindle edition)
1501736302 (kindle edition)
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