Description
Sixteen scholars from across the globe come together in Charles Dickens as an 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.
Author: Joachim Frenk
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 03/15/2019
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781501736285
ISBN10: 1501736280
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- History | Europe | Great Britain | General
About the Author
Joachim Frenk is Professor of British Literary and Cultural Studies at Saarland University. Lena Steveker is Assistant Professor of British Literary and Cultural Studies at Saarland University.