Dickens's secular gospel
Subtitle: work, gender, and personality
By: by Chris Louttit.
Series: Studies in major literary authors
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9780415991360; 9780203874073
Subjects: Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870 -- Political and social views.; Work in literature.; Working class in literature.; Work -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Work -- Psychological aspects.; Work -- Great Britain -- Public opinion.; Public opinion -- Great Britain.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dickens, work, and the Victorians; title: Work and the shaping of personality; title: Gendering the laboring body; title: Dickens and the professions; title: Dickens and domestic management; title: Dickens's idle men; title: Occupation, disguise, and personality in Dickens's late novels.