Charles Dickens as an agent of change / edited by Joachim Frenk and Lena Steveker.

Contributor Frenk, Joachim, 1966- editor.

Imprint:New York : AMS Press, Inc., [2015]

Descriptionxx, 242 pages ; 24 cm.

Note:Introduction: Changing Dickens / Joachim Frenk and Lena Steveker -- Repetitions and reversals: Patterns for social change in Pickwick Papers / Jerome Meckier -- Three revolutions: Alternate routes to social change in Bleak House / Joel J. Brattin -- Dickens, society, and art: Change in Dickens's view of effecting social reform / Robert Heaman -- The world changing Dickens, Dickens changing the world / Bert Hornback -- Parrots, birds of prey, and snorting cattle: Dickens's Whig agenda / David Paroissien -- "The tremendous potency of the small": Dickens, the individual, and social change in a post-America, post-catastrophist age / Nancy Aycock Metz -- Money, power, and appearance in Dombey and Son / Michael Hollington -- The passing of the Pickwick moment / Malcolm Andrews -- The Chimes and the rhythm of life / Matthias Bauer -- Radical Dickens: Dickens and the tradition of Romantic radicalism / Norbert Lennartz -- Modern characters in the late novels of Charles Dickens / Herbert Foltinek -- The cultural politics of Dickens's Hard Times / Doris Feldmann -- Conjuring Dickens: Magic, intellectual property, and The Old Curiosity Shop / Christopher Pittard -- Popular Dickens: Changing Bleak House for the East End stage / Chris Louttit -- The frozen deep: Gad's Hill, June-July 1857 / Robert Tracy -- How to read Dickens in English: a last retrospect / Edgar Rosenberg.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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