Charles Dickens as an Agent of Change

JOACHIM FRENK AND LENA STEVEKER

Description

Sixteen scholars from across the globe come together in Charles Dickens as an Agent of Change to show how Dickens was (and still is) the consummate change agent. His works, bursting with restless energy in the Inimitable's protean style, registered and commented on the ongoing changes in the Victorian world while the Victorians' fictional and factional worlds kept (and keep) changing. The essays from notable Dickens scholars-Malcolm Andrews, Matthias Bauer, Joel J. Brattin, Doris Feldmann, Herbert Foltinek, Robert Heaman, Michael Hollington, Bert Hornback, Norbert Lennartz, Chris Louttit, Jerome Meckier, Nancy Aycock Metz, David Paroissien, Christopher Pittard, and Robert Tracy-suggest the many ways in which the notion of change has found entry into and is negotiated in Dickens' works through four aspects: social change, political and ideological change, literary change, and cultural change. An afterword by the late Edgar Rosenberg adds a personal account of how Dickens changed the life of one eminent Dickensian.

Sujets

• Idioma inglés
• Reino Unido
• United Kingdom
• History of Europe
• English
• Great Britain
• Anglais
• Royaume-Uni

Informations

• Publié par: Cornell University Press
• Date de parution: 15 mars 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781501736292
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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Acknowledgments

he îdea for tîs book Irst took form durîng an înternatîonal semînar, “Dîckens as an Agent of Cange,” wîc we osted în June 2010. We are grateful to our keynote speaker, our revered colleague Mîcael Slater, wose gracîous presence was a paradîgm of te great scolarly spîrît of tîs semînar în general, and crucîal for îts success. We also owe tanks to our semînar attendees and book contrîbutors. he stîmulatîng and înstructîve dîscussîons wît tese brîllîant Dîckens scolars ave been a wonderful and enrîcîng experîence for us. Our tanks also go to our team, our eicîent agents of posîtîve cange. Before and durîng te semînar, Petra Jakob solved many problems, and Hubertus Weyer took care of all tîngs tecnologîcal, bot analog and dîgîtal. Verena Bernardî, Crîstîna Holzer, Sabîne Jung, and Ester Lorsceîder were all învaluable elpers. We also tank Volker Lînneweber, te presîdent of te Unîversîtät des Saarlandes, and Erîc Steîner, te ten dean of our faculty, for teîr unfaîlîng support în te organîzatîonal stages of te semînar. he unîversîty’s Kontaktstelle für Wîssens- und Tecnologîetransfer, Uta Merkle’s team, were îndîspensable specîalîsts în all organîzatîonal matters. Moreover, we are grateful to our colleague Manfred Pînkal, wo gracîously let us convene în îs superb conference venue. Carlotte Brîtz, te Lord Mayor of Saarbrücken, kîndly gave us permîssîon to use te splendîd town all for te openîng ceremony. ïn long workîng ours, Eva Mîcely elped us generously wît te formattîng of our typescrîpt. We are also muc oblîged to Davîd Ramm and Albert Rolls of AMS Press for teîr edîtorîal elp and support.

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

ïntroductîon: Cangîng Dîckens Joachim Frenk and Lena Steveker

ï. Dîckens and Socîal Cange

Contents

Repetitions and Reversals: Patterns or Social Cange inPickwick Papers Jerome Meckier hree Revolutions: Alternate Routes to Social Cange inBleak House Joel J. Brattin Dickens, Society, and Art: Cange in Dickens’s View o Efecting Social Reorm Robert Heaman he World Canging Dickens, Dickens Canging te World Bert Hornback

ïï. Dîckens and Canges of Power

Parrots, Birds o Prey, and Snorting Cattle: Dickens’s Wig Agenda David Paroissien “he Tremendous Potency o te Small”: Dickens, te Individual, and Social Cange in a Post-America, Post-Catastropist Age Nancy Aycock Metz Money, Power, and Appearance inDombey and Son Michael Hollington

ïïï. Dîckens and Lîterary Cange

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Radical Dickens: Dickens and te Tradition o Romantic Radicalism Norbert Lennartz Modern Caracters in te Late Novels o Carles Dickens Herbert Foltinek

ïV. Dîckens and Canges în Popular Culture and în te heater

he Cultural Politics o Dickens’sHard Times Doris Feldmann Conjuring Dickens: Magic, Intellectual Property, and he Old Curiosity Sop Christopher Pittard Popular Dickens: CangingBleak Houseor te East End Stage Chris Louttit he Frozen Deep: Gad’s Hill, June–July 1857 Robert Tracy

How to Read Dickens in Englis: A Last Retrospect Edgar Rosenberg

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List of Abbreviations

The following abbreviations are used in all parenthetical references to Charles Dickens’s novels. For full bibliographical information on the editions used in the individual essays, please consult the respective bibliographies.

Pickwick Papers Oliver Twist Nicholas Nickleby The Old Curiosity Shop Barnaby Rudge A Christmas Carol The Chimes Martin Chuzzlewit Dombey and Son David Copperîeld Bleak House Hard Times Little Dorrit A Tale of Two Cities Great Expectations Our Mutual Friend The Mystery of Edwin Drood

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