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Dickens, Religion and Society

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  1. Robert Butterworth
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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Dickens’s Engagement with Religion

    • Robert Butterworth
    Pages 1-25

  3. Dickens and Early Victorian Christian Social Attitudes

    • Robert Butterworth
    Pages 26-46

  4. Oliver Twist and Fagin’s Jewishness

    • Robert Butterworth
    Pages 47-56

  5. Christian Social Vision in the Novels of the 1850s: Bleak House, Hard Times and Little Dorrit

    • Robert Butterworth
    Pages 57-66

  6. Bleak House: Law, Religion and Civilisation

    • Robert Butterworth
    Pages 67-94

  7. ‘Oh my Friends and Brothers’: Industrialism and Trade Unionism in Hard Times

    • Robert Butterworth
    Pages 95-109

  8. Little Dorrit: Serving Mammon

    • Robert Butterworth
    Pages 110-132

  9. Dickens and Politics: Temporary and Permanent Revolution

    • Robert Butterworth
    Pages 133-144

  10. Barnaby Rudge and the Struggle for Brotherhood

    • Robert Butterworth
    Pages 145-164

  11. A Tale of Two Cities and the Persistence of Evil

    • Robert Butterworth
    Pages 165-182

  12. A Note on Dickens and Sentimentality

    • Robert Butterworth
    Pages 183-199

  13. Conclusion

    • Robert Butterworth
    Pages 200-201

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 202-237
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Dickens, Religion and Society examines the centrality of Dickens's religious attitudes to the social criticism he is famous for, shedding new light in the process on such matters as the presentation of Fagin as a villainous Jew, the hostile portrayal of trade unions in Hard Times and Dickens's sentimentality.

About the author

Robert Butterworth was educated at Farnworth Grammar School and the University of Leeds, and works as a lecturer in North West England. In addition to numerous articles about Dickens, he has published on other Victorian writers including Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Thomas Hood and George Gissing.

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