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Charles Dickens as an Agent of Change by Lena Steveker (editor); Joachim Frenk (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Charles Dickens as an Agent of Change about?

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. Review "An enjoyable and wide-ranging collection of articles exploring Dickens and change." ( English Studies ) "Excellent discussions of condition-of-England novels." (

Who reads Charles Dickens as an Agent of Change?

Author

Lena Steveker (editor); Joachim Frenk (editor)

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501736292

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical