{"product_id":"charles-dickens-as-an-agent-of-change-paperback-softback-9781501736285","title":"Charles Dickens As an Agent of Change (Paperback \/ softback) 9781501736285","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCharles Dickens As an Agent of Change\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJoachim Frenk (Edited by), Lena Steveker (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501736285\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 March 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e264 pages, 1 b\u0026amp;w halftone - 1 Halftones, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will delight Dickens scholars and prove an asset to any university library.... It is one that will inspire readers to consider the changes the great writer has wrought in them, and that they, in their turn, may bring to Dickens scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e (Modern Language Review) \u003cp\u003eThis collection proves Dickens to have been a keen student of change throughout his life. Its contributors... consider how Dickens promotes social change, how he presents changes of power, how he changes his own techniques, and finally how his presentation of change has inspired others.... As this impressively kaleidoscopic collection attests, Dickens's discussions of change remain a stimulating topic well over a century later.\u003c\/p\u003e (Dickens Quarterly) \u003cp\u003eAn enjoyable and wide-ranging collection of articles exploring Dickens and change.\u003c\/p\u003e (English Studies) \u003cp\u003eExcellent discussions of condition-of-England novels.\u003c\/p\u003e (Choice)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eSixteen scholars from across the globe come together in \u003ci\u003eCharles Dickens as an Agent of Change\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eIntroduction: Changing Dickens\u003cbr\u003e I. Dickens and Social Change\u003cbr\u003e Repetitions and Reversals: Patterns for Social Change in \u003ci\u003ePickwick Papers\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eThree Revolutions: Alternate Routes to Social Change in\u003ci\u003e Bleak House\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eDickens, Society, and Art: Change in Dickens's View of Effecting Social Reform\u003cbr\u003e The World Changing Dickens, Dickens Changing the World\u003cbr\u003e II. Dickens and Changes of Power\u003cbr\u003e Parrots, Birds of Prey, and Snorting Cattle: Dickens's Whig Agenda\u003cbr\u003e \"The Tremendous Potency of the Small\": Dickens, the Individual, and Social Change in a Post-America, Post-Catastrophist Age\u003cbr\u003e Money, Power, and Appearance in \u003ci\u003eDombey and Son\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eIII. Dickens and Literary Change\u003cbr\u003e The Passing of the \u003ci\u003ePickwick Moment\u003cbr\u003e The Chimes\u003c\/i\u003e and the Rhythm of Life\u003cbr\u003e Radical Dickens: Dickens and the Tradition of Romantic Radicalism\u003cbr\u003e Modern Characters in the Late Novels of Charles Dickens\u003cbr\u003e IV. Dickens and Changes in Popular Culture and in the Theater\u003cbr\u003e The Cultural Politics of Dickens's \u003ci\u003eHard Times\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eConjuring Dickens: Magic, Intellectual Property, and \u003ci\u003eThe Old Curiosity Shop\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ePopular Dickens: Changing \u003ci\u003eBleak House\u003c\/i\u003e for the East End Stage\u003cbr\u003e The Frozen Deep: Gad's Hill, June-July 1857\u003cbr\u003e How to Read Dickens in English: A Last Retrospect\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523254317336,"sku":"9781501736285","price":19.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/charles-dickens-as-an-agent-of-change-paperback-softback-9781501736285","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}