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- catalog abstract ""This study focuses on Dickens's response to questions of identity, conduct, and social organization that emerged in an era of major cultural unsettlement and change, not least with the decline of religious certainty and the rise of materialism. An analysis of A Christmas Carol as a paradigm of his concerns and strategies in these fields is followed by close readings of novels from different stages of his career, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend. These, and other works by Dickens, are seen to reflect ideologies currently at work in his society but also, more importantly, to participate in the construction of needful value systems and codes for regulating behaviour. Liberal humanism and middle-class hegemony feature largely in this process of culture formation, where Dickens played a crucial role in formulating and promulgating such salient guiding principles as those of sympathy, marriage and the family, economic responsibility, and hierarchy within and between groups."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13102997.
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""This study focuses on Dickens's response to questions of identity, conduct, and social organization that emerged in an era of major cultural unsettlement and change, not least with the decline of religious certainty and the rise of materialism. An analysis of A Christmas Carol as a paradigm of his concerns and strategies in these fields is followed by close readings of novels from different stages of his career, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend. These, and other works by Dickens, are seen to reflect ideologies currently at work in his society but also, more importantly, to participate in the construction of needful value systems and codes for regulating behaviour. Liberal humanism and middle-class hegemony feature largely in this process of culture formation, where Dickens played a crucial role in formulating and promulgating such salient guiding principles as those of sympathy, marriage and the family, economic responsibility, and hierarchy within and between groups."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-307) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction -- A Christmas carol : snatched? -- Oliver Twist : hegemony and the transgressive imagination -- David Copperfield : selving and social modelling -- Great expectations : Pip Pirrip's gospel for modern man -- Our mutual friend : retrospective and reform.".
- catalog extent "xii, 315 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Scriptures of Charles Dickens.".
- catalog identifier "1859284345 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Scriptures of Charles Dickens.".
- catalog isPartOf "Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England)".
- catalog isPartOf "The nineteenth century".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate,".
- catalog relation "Scriptures of Charles Dickens.".
- catalog subject "823/.8 21".
- catalog subject "Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.".
- catalog subject "Identity (Psychology) in literature.".
- catalog subject "Ideology in literature.".
- catalog subject "PR4588 .N395 2004".
- catalog subject "Religion in literature.".
- catalog subject "Self in literature.".
- catalog subject "Social problems in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- A Christmas carol : snatched? -- Oliver Twist : hegemony and the transgressive imagination -- David Copperfield : selving and social modelling -- Great expectations : Pip Pirrip's gospel for modern man -- Our mutual friend : retrospective and reform.".
- catalog title "The scriptures of Charles Dickens : novels of ideology, novels of the self / Vincent Newey.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".