Dickens's Secular Gospel di Chris Louttit edito da Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Dickens's Secular Gospel

Work, Gender, And Personality

EAN:

9780415991360

ISBN:

0415991366

Pagine:
168
Formato:
Hardback
Lingua:
Inglese
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Descrizione Dickens's Secular Gospel

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 Dickens 's fiction and journalism in the light of new biographical and historical research, Louttit shows that Dickens is not interested in work as an abstract, positive value, or even in cataloguing it in concrete detail. What he explores instead is the human dimension of work: how, in other words, work affects the lives of those engaged in it. His writing about work is, as a result, best viewed not merely as a quasi-religious Gospel of Work, nor as an objective sociological report, but rather as what Louttit terms a "secular gospel."

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