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Routledge
182 Pages
by
Routledge
182 Pages
by
Routledge
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The first full-length study on the subject of Dickens and work, this book reshapes our understanding of Dickens by challenging a critical oversimplification: that Dickens's attitude towards work reflects conventional expressions of Victorian earnestness of the sort attributed also to Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, and even more simplistically, Samuel Smiles. Instead, by analyzing a wide range of... Read more
Introduction: Dickens, Work and the Victorians 1 'In the very grain of man'? Work and the Shaping of Personality 2 Gendering the Labouring Body 3 'A Theatre of Healing or Cruelty'? Dickens and Professionalism 4 Women's Work? Dickens and the Management of the Home 5 Bad and Idle Dogs? Reclaiming Dickens's Idle Men Epilogue: Occupation Disguise in Our Mutual Friend and The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Biography
Chris Louttit is an Assistant Professor of British Literature at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands.
"Carefully researched, well written and free of jargon, Dicken's Secular Gospel presents us with convincing readings of Dickens's exploration of 'the human dimensions of work.'"
--Dickens Quarterly, Vol. 27, No. 4, December 2010
