Dickens, Religion and Society

Dickens, Religion and Society

Robert Butterworth

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Editorial:
Springer Nature B.V.
Año de edición:
2015
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Literatura: historia y crítica
ISBN:
9781137558701

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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.

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