Dickens's Secular Gospel: Work, Gender, and Personality

Author:   Chris Louttit (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138817463


Pages:   168
Publication Date:   11 September 2014
Format:   Paperback
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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 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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Author:   Chris Louttit (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.249kg
ISBN:  

9781138817463


ISBN 10:   1138817465
Pages:   168
Publication Date:   11 September 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction: Dickens, Work, and the Victorians Chapter One: Work and the Shaping of Personality Chapter Two: Gendering the Laboring Body Chapter Three: Dickens and the Professions Chapter Four: Dickens and Domestic Management Chapter Five: Dickens’s Idle Men Epilogue: Occupation, Disguise, and Personality in Dickens’s Late Novels Notes Select Bibliography Index

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""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


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


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


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Chris Louttit is an Assistant Professor of British Literature at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands.

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