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This is the first collection to investigate Charles Dickens on his vast and various opinions about the uses and abuses of the tenets of Christian faith that imbue English Victorian culture. Although previous studies have looked at his well-known antipathies toward Dissenters, Evangelicals, Catholics, and Jews, they have also disagreed about Dickens' thoughts on Unitarianism and speculated on doctrines of Protestantism that he endorsed or rejected. Besides addressing his depiction of these religious groups, the volume's contributors locate gaps in scholarship and unresolved illations about poverty and charity, representations of children, graveyards, labor, scientific controversy, and other social issues through an investigation of Dickens' theological concerns. In addition, given that Dickens' texts continue to influence every generation around the globe, a timely inclusion in the collection is a consideration of the neo-Victorian multi-media representations of Dickens' work and his ideas on theological questions pitched to a postmodern society.
Contents
Introduction: Dickens' Theology: A Hard Nut to Crack
Brenda Ayres
1 "Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth": Dickens' Non-Christian Theology
Brenda Ayres
2 Consecrated Abominations: Pilgrimage and Churchyard Homage in Dickens' Novels
Daniel Stuart
3 Dickens and the Specter of Materialism: The Spiritual Significance of Ghosts in the Christmas Books and Ghost Stories
Christine Schintgen
4 Dickens Demystified: The Jesuitical Journey of Ebenezer Scrooge Through the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola
Mary-Antoinette Smith
5 "For Whom the Bell Tolls": Dickens' Barnaby Rudge
Julie Donovan
6 "Gazing at All the Church and Chapel Going": Social Views of Religious
Nonconformity in Dickens' Fiction
Lydia Craig
7 Needful Things: Dickens, Social Justice, and the Meaning of Human Work
Susan Johnston
8 The Gospel of Modernity: Idolatry as the Road to Grace in David Copperfield and
Great Expectations
Marie Heneghan
9 Unheavenly and Broken Homes in Dickens' Novels
Brenda Ayres
10 Ghosts of Dickens' Past: The Death of Judaism in Oliver Twist and Our Mutual
Friend
Lindsay Katzir
11 Theological Shifts in Dickensian Narratives Before and After Darwin's Origin:
Little Dorrit and Our Mutual Friend
Aaron K. H. Ho
12 Teeming City, Tangled Web: Dickens' Affinity with Darwin
Tony Schwab
13 Theology of the Street: Dickensian Characters for the Twenty-first Century
SARAH E. MAIER
