The Moral Art Of Dickens Essays By Barbara Hardy

Download or read book Moral Art of Dickens written by Barbara Hardy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 novels: Pickwick Papers, Martin Chuzzlewit, David Copperfield, and Great Expectations.