Charles Dickens as an Agent of Change / Joachim Frenk, Lena Steveker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Frenk, Joachim, Editor.

Steveker, Lena, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Political and social views--Congresses.

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Criticism and interpretation--Congresses.

Social problems in literature--Congresses.

Social problems in literature.

Literature and society--England--History--19th century--Congresses.

Literature and society.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Sixteen scholars from across the globe come together in Charles Dickens as 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Changing Dickens / Frenk, Joachim / Steveker, Lena

I. Dickens and Social Change

Repetitions and Reversals: Patterns for Social Change in Pickwick Papers / Meckier, Jerome

Three Revolutions: Alternate Routes to Social Change in Bleak House / Brattin, Joel J.

Dickens, Society, and Art: Change in Dickens's View of Effecting Social Reform / Heaman, Robert

The World Changing Dickens, Dickens Changing the World / Hornback, Bert

II. Dickens and Changes of Power

Parrots, Birds of Prey, and Snorting Cattle: Dickens's Whig Agenda of the 1840s / Paroissien, David

"The Tremendous Potency of the Small": Dickens, the Individual, and Social Change in a Post-America, Post-Catastrophist Age / Metz, Nancy Aycock

Money, Power, and Appearance in Dombey and Son / Hollington, Michael

III. Dickens and Literary Change

The Passing of the Pickwick Moment / Andrews, Malcolm

The Chimes and the Rhythm of Life / Bauer, Matthias

Radical Dickens: Dickens and the Tradition of Romantic Radicalism / Lennartz, Norbert

Modern Characters in the Late Novels of Charles Dickens / Foltinek, Herbert

IV. Dickens and Changes in Popular Culture and in the Theater

The Cultural Politics of Charles Dickens's Hard Times / Feldmann, Doris

Conjuring Dickens: Magic, Intellectual Property, and The Old Curiosity Shop / Pittard, Christopher

Popular Dickens: Changing Bleack House for the East End Stage / Louttit, Chris

The Frozen Deep: Gad's Hill, June-July 1857 / Tracy, Robert

How to Read Dickens in English: A Last Retrospect / Rosenberg, Edgar

Index

Notes:

"Originally published in 2015 by AMS Press, Inc."--Title page verso.

Papers originally presented at a conference held in June 2010 at Universität des Saarlandes.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

9781501736285

1501736280

9781501736292

1501736299

OCLC:

1057741123