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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453528803321

Autore

Hardy Barbara Nathan

Titolo

The moral art of Dickens [[electronic resource] ] : essays / / by Barbara Hardy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Athlone Press, 1970

ISBN

9786611783518

1-281-78351-X

0-567-62030-1

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (170 p.)

Disciplina

823.8

823/.8

Soggetti

Didactic fiction, English - History and criticism

Ethics in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; Section One: General; 1. Society and the Individual; 2. The Change of Heart (I); 3. The Change of Heart (2); Section Two: Particular; 4. Pickwick Papers; 5. Martin Chuzzlewit; 6. David Copperfield; 7. Great Expectations

Sommario/riassunto

Professor Barbara Hardy is a noted critic of nineteenth-century fiction but her essays on Dickens have hitherto been scattered widely among critical journals and anthologies. The seven studies she has here collected, introduced, and in part revised, together make up a sustained exploration of the moral concern which informs the novelist's work and gives to his portrayal of society and the individual its unique quality. A general discussion of the moral nature of Dickens' art leads to a study of patterns of change and conversion and this in turn to a close examination of four representative nov