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Dickens's Secular Gospel

Author : Chris Louttit
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135217501

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The first full-length study on the subject of Dickens and work, this book reshapes our understanding of Dickens by challenging a critical oversimplification: that Dickens's attitude towards work reflects conventional expressions of Victorian earnestness of the sort attributed also to Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, and even more simplistically, Samuel Smiles. Instead, by analyzing a wide range of Dickens’s fiction and journalism in the light of new biographical and historical research, Louttit shows that Dickens is not interested in work as an abstract, positive value, or even in cataloguing it in concrete detail. What he explores instead is the human dimension of work: how, in other words, work affects the lives of those engaged in it. His writing about work is, as a result, best viewed not merely as a quasi-religious Gospel of Work, nor as an objective sociological report, but rather as what Louttit terms a "secular gospel."

Dickens's Secular Gospel

Author : Chris Louttit
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135217518

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The first full-length study on the subject of Dickens and work, this book argues that, rather than engaging with work as an abstract, quasi-religious and entirely benign value, Dickens’s writings demonstrate the varied ways in which it shapes gender identity and personality.

Dickens, Christianity and 'The Life of Our Lord'

Author : Gary Colledge
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781441130495

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Dickens, Christianity and 'The Life of Our Lord' by Gary Colledge Pdf

The Life of our Lord is a life of Jesus written by Dickens for his children in the 1840s but not published intil 1934. This is the first major study to carefully and seriously consider the work and its place in the Dickens corpus.

Dickens and Religion

Author : Dennis Walder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136022463

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Dickens and Religion by Dennis Walder Pdf

The importance of understanding Dickens's religion to obtain a full appreciation of his achievement has long been admitted; but this is the first critical study of the interaction between Dickens's religious beliefs and his creative imagination throughout his career. The novelist's religious beliefs are a pervasive and deeply felt presence in his works even if they are not always clearly thought out or expressed. Too discreet and humane to be as explicit, or as dull, as most of the professedly religious novelists of his time, Dickens nevertheless suggests in his own way a liberal Protestant belief, shot through with Romantic, transcendental yearnings, which undoubtedly appealed to a very wide range of readers. Dickens's religion is shown to be that of a great popular writer, who created a unique kind of fiction, and a unique relationship with his readers, by the absorption and transformation of less respectable contemporary forms, from fairy-tale and German romance to tract and print. Walder's thoroughly researched and lively book provides students of Dickens and the Victorian period with an original perspective on the novelist's methods and attitudes. He offers a judicious and informed exploration of Dickens's obsessive themes, from the 'fall' of innocence in Pickwick Papers, to the search for a religious 'answer' in Little Dorrit. Each chapter focuses upon the striking congruences revealed between individual novels, or groups of novels, and particular religious themes. The views expressed in Dickens's lesser fiction and non-fiction are drawn on throughout, as are those in the influential contemporary press.

God and Charles Dickens

Author : Gary Colledge
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781587433207

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God and Charles Dickens by Gary Colledge Pdf

Explores the Christian convictions Charles Dickens held and displayed in his work, bringing the vital faith of an important and vastly popular writer to life.

Hearing the Gospel Through Charles Dickens's a Christmas Carol

Author : Reverend Cheryl Anne Kincaid
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Bible
ISBN : 1443841994

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Hearing the Gospel Through Charles Dickens's a Christmas Carol by Reverend Cheryl Anne Kincaid Pdf

This book is a Christian devotional that uses Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol as a tool to teach the ancient Advent lessons of Hope, Faith, Peace, Love and Joy. Each week's devotion begins with a section from A Christmas Carol which dramatizes the Advent Lesson and is followed with a scriptural Advent lesson from the Church of England's Book of Prayer-- back cover.

The Gospel in Dickens

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Gospel in Great Writers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Bible
ISBN : 0874868416

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The Gospel in Dickens by Charles Dickens Pdf

"The most stirring Dickens scenes and characters in one concise volume"--

The Life of Our Lord

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664256805

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The Life of Our Lord by Charles Dickens Pdf

This charming, nostalgic work includes illustrations of pages from the original manuscript, a portrait of Dicken's children, and engravings of biblical scenes in a style often used in family Bibles during Dicken's time.

Hearing the Gospel Through Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol"

Author : Cheryl Anne Kincaid
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Bible
ISBN : 1443817147

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Hearing the Gospel Through Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" by Cheryl Anne Kincaid Pdf

"This book is a Christian devotional that uses A Christmas Carol as a tool to teach the ancient Advent lessons of Hope, Faith, Peace, Love and Joy. Each week's devotion begins with a section from A Christmas Carol which dramatizes the Advent Lesson and is followed with a scriptural Advent lesson from the Church of England s Book of Prayer. As we travel through Ebenezer's redemptive healing journey, readers are invited to examine how Christ is born in their past, present and future. This devotional is for Christians to use as private and family devotions to prepare themselves for the Advent season"--P. [4] of cover.

The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord

Author : Scott Carter
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780822233206

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The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord by Scott Carter Pdf

A Founding Father, a Victorian novelist and a Russian revolutionary walk into a…stop me if you’ve heard this one. Thomas Jefferson (yes that one), Charles Dickens (the very same) and Count Leo Tolstoy (who else?) are brought together in a blistering battle of wits. From Scott Carter (executive producer of Real Time with Bill Maher), this whip-smart comedy examines what happens when great men of history are forced to repeat it.

The Dickens Christian Reader

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Bible
ISBN : UCSC:32106015134635

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The Dickens Christian Reader by Charles Dickens Pdf

Charles Dickens had a close relationship with the doctrines of Christianity. This text is an introduction to the scriptural significance of his works, it takes excerpts from a range of his writings and directly links them to passages from the Bible.

Victorian Testaments

Author : Sue Zemka
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804728488

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Victorian Testaments examines the changing nature of biblical and religious authority during the first half of the Victorian period. The book argues that these changes had a profound impact on concepts of cultural authority in general. Among the figures discussed are Coleridge, Thomas Arnold, Ruskin, Dickens, Florence Nightingale, and the missionaries of the British and Foreign Bible Society. In developing its picture of Victorian religious ideology, the book analyzes major works of the period, as well as works and documents that have received little critical attention. Its methods are interdisciplinary, building upon recent ideas in literary theory, cultural criticism, and gender studies. The book proposes that changes in religious faith and Bible reading tended in two directions, the one a celebration of spiritual individualism, the other of the nuclear family. As the credibility of a supernatural source for the scriptures diminished, the need for certainty in moral and religious matters was increasingly filled by the importance attached to individual character. Those Victorians who nurtured their individual character on Bible reading were understood to reveal the perfect spirit of the scriptures—just as the scriptures themselves, it seemed, could no longer do so. However, the desire for religious heroes was counterpoised by another and highly sentimentalized model of the spiritual life, one where religious authority was decentered across a social spectrum of fathers, mothers, and children. In this second direction explored by the book, a complex economy of spiritual power and authority is created by the distribution of sexual, intellectual, and affective attributes to figures who together constitute the nuclear family—one might say the secular holy family. By tracing these two narrative patterns—the intellectual drama of the spiritual hero and the sentimental saga of the nuclear family—the author demonstrates that the spirituality of many nineteenth-century texts was not an allegory of transcendence so much as a by-product of the narratives themselves. A large-scale cultural confrontation with the disappearance of God was, to a certain extent, deferred by narratives that picked up the slack in faith, creating performances of sacred power with characters who demonstrated either an awesome religious interiority or a recognizably sentimental display of idealized femininity or childhood innocence.

The Life of Our Lord

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439142585

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The Life of Our Lord by Charles Dickens Pdf

Charles Dickens's other Christmas classic, with a new introduction by Dickens's great-great-grandson, Gerald Charles Dickens. Charles Dickens wrote The Life of Our Lord during the years 1846-1849, just about the time he was completing David Copperfield. In this charming, simple retelling of the life of Jesus Christ, adapted from the Gospel of St. Luke, Dickens hoped to teach his young children about religion and faith. Since he wrote it exclusively for his children, Dickens refused to allow publication. For eighty-five years the manuscript was guarded as a precious family secret, and it was handed down from one relative to the next. When Dickens died in 1870, it was left to his sister-in-law, Georgina Hogarth. From there it fell to Dickens's son, Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, with the admonition that it should not be published while any child of Dickens lived. Just before the 1933 holidays, Sir Henry, then the only living child of Dickens, died, leaving his father's manuscript to his wife and children. He also bequeathed to them the right to make the decision to publish The Life of Our Lord. By majority vote, Sir Henry's widow and children decided to publish the book in London. In 1934, Simon & Schuster published the first American edition, which became one of the year's biggest bestsellers.

Whither Bound?

Author : Justin Dewey FULTON
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Canonization sermons
ISBN : BL:A0021943817

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The Theological Dickens

Author : Brenda Ayres,Sarah E. Maier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000469387

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The Theological Dickens by Brenda Ayres,Sarah E. Maier Pdf

This is the first collection to investigate Charles Dickens on his vast and various opinions about the uses and abuses of the tenets of Christian faith that imbue English Victorian culture. Although previous studies have looked at his well-known antipathies toward Dissenters, Evangelicals, Catholics, and Jews, they have also disagreed about Dickens’ thoughts on Unitarianism and speculated on doctrines of Protestantism that he endorsed or rejected. Besides addressing his depiction of these religious groups, the volume’s contributors locate gaps in scholarship and unresolved illations about poverty and charity, representations of children, graveyards, labor, scientific controversy, and other social issues through an investigation of Dickens’ theological concerns. In addition, given that Dickens’ texts continue to influence every generation around the globe, a timely inclusion in the collection is a consideration of the neo-Victorian multi-media representations of Dickens’ work and his ideas on theological questions pitched to a postmodern society.