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Contents
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Acknowledgments v
- Contents vii
- List of Abbreviations ix
- Introduction: Changing Dickens xi
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I. Dickens and Social Change
- Repetitions and Reversals: Patterns for Social Change in Pickwick Papers 3
- Three Revolutions: Alternate Routes to Social Change in Bleak House 19
- Dickens, Society, and Art: Change in Dickens’s View of Effecting Social Reform 33
- The World Changing Dickens, Dickens Changing the World 47
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II. Dickens and Changes of Power
- Parrots, Birds of Prey, and Snorting Cattle: Dickens’s Whig Agenda of the 1840s 61
- “The Tremendous Potency of the Small”: Dickens, the Individual, and Social Change in a Post-America, Post-Catastrophist Age 75
- Money, Power, and Appearance in Dombey and Son 85
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III. Dickens and Literary Change
- The Passing of the Pickwick Moment 99
- The Chimes and the Rhythm of Life 111
- Radical Dickens: Dickens and the Tradition of Romantic Radicalism 129
- Modern Characters in the Late Novels of Charles Dickens 145
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IV. Dickens and Changes in Popular Culture and in the Theater
- The Cultural Politics of Charles Dickens’s Hard Times 159
- Conjuring Dickens: Magic, Intellectual Property, and The Old Curiosity Shop 173
- Popular Dickens: Changing Bleack House for the East End Stage 191
- The Frozen Deep: Gad’s Hill, June–July 1857 205
- How to Read Dickens in English: A Last Retrospect 219
- Index 235
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Acknowledgments v
- Contents vii
- List of Abbreviations ix
- Introduction: Changing Dickens xi
-
I. Dickens and Social Change
- Repetitions and Reversals: Patterns for Social Change in Pickwick Papers 3
- Three Revolutions: Alternate Routes to Social Change in Bleak House 19
- Dickens, Society, and Art: Change in Dickens’s View of Effecting Social Reform 33
- The World Changing Dickens, Dickens Changing the World 47
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II. Dickens and Changes of Power
- Parrots, Birds of Prey, and Snorting Cattle: Dickens’s Whig Agenda of the 1840s 61
- “The Tremendous Potency of the Small”: Dickens, the Individual, and Social Change in a Post-America, Post-Catastrophist Age 75
- Money, Power, and Appearance in Dombey and Son 85
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III. Dickens and Literary Change
- The Passing of the Pickwick Moment 99
- The Chimes and the Rhythm of Life 111
- Radical Dickens: Dickens and the Tradition of Romantic Radicalism 129
- Modern Characters in the Late Novels of Charles Dickens 145
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IV. Dickens and Changes in Popular Culture and in the Theater
- The Cultural Politics of Charles Dickens’s Hard Times 159
- Conjuring Dickens: Magic, Intellectual Property, and The Old Curiosity Shop 173
- Popular Dickens: Changing Bleack House for the East End Stage 191
- The Frozen Deep: Gad’s Hill, June–July 1857 205
- How to Read Dickens in English: A Last Retrospect 219
- Index 235