Książka Dickens, Conscience, and the Victorian Imagination Gabriel W. Campbell

Dickens, Conscience, and the Victorian Imagination

Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Miękka
Wydawca: Colloquium
Dostępność: Zapowiedź
Wydanie 10. 07. 2026
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To approach Charles Dickens is to enter a world where the moral life is never abstract. It is lived...

Informacje o książce

Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Miękka
Data wydania
2026
strony
182
EAN
9798235790735
Enbook ID
53222124
Wydawca
Waga
219
Wymiary
140 x 216 x 10

Pełny opis

To approach Charles Dickens is to enter a world where the moral life is never abstract. It is lived in crowded streets, in cramped parlors, in countinghouses and courtrooms, in prisons both literal and psychological. His fiction insists that conscience is not a private whisper but a public force, shaped by the pressures of industrial modernity and the imaginative possibilities of storytelling. This book begins from the conviction that Dickens's work constitutes one of the nineteenth century's most sustained meditations on how individuals and societies learn to feel, judge, and act. His novels are not simply narratives of character and plot; they are laboratories of moral imagination, staging the conflicts, failures, and aspirations of a culture grappling with unprecedented social transformation. To read Dickens is to witness the Victorian conscience in motion.