Frenk / Steveker Charles Dickens as an Agent of Change

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-5017-3629-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 0 - No protection

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frenk, Joachim

Steveker, Lena

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Changing Dickens
I. Dickens and Social Change
Repetitions and Reversals: Patterns for Social Change in Pickwick Papers
Three Revolutions: Alternate Routes to Social Change in Bleak House
Dickens, Society, and Art: Change in Dickens's View of Effecting Social Reform
The World Changing Dickens, Dickens Changing the World
II. Dickens and Changes of Power
Parrots, Birds of Prey, and Snorting Cattle: Dickens's Whig Agenda
"The Tremendous Potency of the Small": Dickens, the Individual, and Social Change in a Post-America, Post-Catastrophist Age
Money, Power, and Appearance in Dombey and Son
III. Dickens and Literary Change
The Passing of the Pickwick Moment
The Chimes and the Rhythm of Life
Radical Dickens: Dickens and the Tradition of Romantic Radicalism
Modern Characters in the Late Novels of Charles Dickens
IV. Dickens and Changes in Popular Culture and in the Theater
The Cultural Politics of Dickens's Hard Times
Conjuring Dickens: Magic, Intellectual Property, and The Old Curiosity Shop
Popular Dickens: Changing Bleak House for the East End Stage
The Frozen Deep: Gad's Hill, June-July 1857
How to Read Dickens in English: A Last Retrospect
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Joachim Frenk is Professor of British Literary and Cultural Studies at Saarland University.