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Sitio, Robert Juni Tua, Yumna Rasid, and Aceng Rahmat. "RELIGIOSITY IN CHARLES DICKENSâ€™ CHRISTMAS NOVELS A Study of Structural Genetic." IJLECR - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE EDUCATION AND CULTURE REVIEW 4, no. 1 (June 29, 2018): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.21009/ijlecr.041.01.

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The objective of this research was to understand comprehensively the meaning and existence of religiosity in Dickensâ€™ Christmas Novels. It was a qualitative research by using structural genetic approach. The data were collected by using content analysis to classify the frequency of the concept or the code of the text. Then conducting them towards dimension of religiosity. The data analysis and interpretation indicates that (1) Dimensions of religiosity exist in intrinsic structures such theme, plot, character, setting indicate the importance of religiosity to make a better world. (2) Social structure indicates the gap between the rich and the poor in English society. (3) The authorâ€™s world view indicates manâ€™s experience effect human character as religious or irreligious person. The findings lead to recommendation to practice literary research on religion and literature as well as motivate students gaining knowledge and good interpretation of the text and the context of religiosity.

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Cunningham, Lawrence S. "Four American Catholics and their Chronicler." Horizons 31, no. 1 (2004): 113–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0360966900001110.

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When Dorothy Day decided to write a history of the Catholic Worker movement she drew for inspiration from the writings she knew and loved intimately: the novels of Charles Dickens; the radical reportage of activists like Carlo Levi (Christ Stopped at Eboli), George Orwell (Down and Out in Paris and London), and Danilo Dolci (Report from Palermo). She also loved Ignazio Silone's antifascist novel Bread and Wine. Towering over all of these writers, however, were the Russians and more particularly the late Leo Tolstoy of Resurrection and the profound, fictive world of Fydor Dostoevski whose “fool for Christ” (Prince Myshkin of The Idiot) and the saintly Aloysha of the Brothers Karamazov were iconic. Day was a follower of the Gospel but her human horizon was nourished by her life long love for literature.Who knows the mystery of God's attracting grace but if the old scholastics had it right in their axiom that grace builds on nature one would have to say that the four persons whom Paul Elie chronicles in his recent brilliant work on the American Catholic Church in the middle of the twentieth century were attracted to a vigorous life in Catholicism on nature as made concrete in literature. What all four had in common was a profound love of literature and, more to the point, the fact that there was a common thread in their devotion to The Brothers Karamazov and other seminal works of literature. In fact, one can play a little mind game while reading this capacious study: what were they all reading as their adult lives matured?The four persons at the heart of Elie's book were writers but of a decidedly different stripe. Flannery O'Connor, whose life was cut short by a debilitating case of lupus, wrote slowly and with an exactitude that demands an equally slow patient reading even when the stories are clear but the meaning allusive.

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Monod, Sylvere, and Harland S. Nelson. "Charles Dickens." Modern Language Review 80, no. 2 (April 1985): 442. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3728701.

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Bouvard, Luc. "Christine Huguet (éd.), Charles Dickens l’Inimitable (Charles Dickens the Inimitable)." Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens, no. 76 Automne (October 20, 2012): 152–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/cve.535.

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Tucker, Edward L. "James and Charles Dickens." Henry James Review 17, no. 2 (1996): 208–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hjr.1996.0018.

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Dransfield, Scott. "Charles Dickens and the Victorian “Mormon Moment”." Religion and the Arts 17, no. 5 (2013): 489–506. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685292-12341297.

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Abstract The growth of Mormonism in England in the middle of the nineteenth century presented a number of challenges relating to the cultural status of the new religion and its followers. Charles Dickens’s “uncommercial traveller” sketch describing a group of 800 Mormon converts preparing to emigrate to the United States, “Bound for the Great Salt Lake,” represents the challenge effectively. While Mormons were quickly identified by their heresies and by those qualities that characterized cultural and religious otherness, they were also observed to possess traits of Englishness, reflecting the image of a healthy working class. This article considers the tensions among these contradictory qualities and traces them to a middle-class “secular gospel” that Dickens articulates in his novels. Dickens utilizes this “gospel”—an ethic that valorizes work and domestic order as bearing religious significance—to perceive the followers of the new religion.

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Piggott, Gillian. "Charles Dickens / Going Astray: Dickens and London." Journal of Victorian Culture 16, no. 1 (April 2011): 146–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2010.519550.

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Wegelin, Christof A., and Sidney P. Moss. "Charles Dickens' Quarrel with America." American Literature 57, no. 4 (December 1985): 666. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2926370.

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Sanders, Andrew, and Graham Storey. "Charles Dickens: 'Bleak House'." Modern Language Review 84, no. 2 (April 1989): 447. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3731594.

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Louttit, Chris. "A Companion to Charles Dickens." English Studies 90, no. 6 (December 2009): 743–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00138380902990259.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Dickens, Charles, Religion in literature"

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Smith, Steven N. "An analysis of gospel elements in selected major works of Charles Dickens." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1990. http://www.tren.com.

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Colledge, Gary. "Revisiting the sublime history : Dickens, Christianity, and 'The life of Our Lord' /." Thesis, St Andrews, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/422.

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Zeske, Karen Marie. "Browning and Dickens: Religious Direction in Victorian England." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1991. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500704/.

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Many Nineteenth century writers experienced the withdrawal of God discussed by Miller in The Disappearance of God. Robert Browning and Charles Dickens present two examples of "Fra Lippo Lippi" and Great Expectations model effective alternatives to accepting God's absence. Conversely "Andrea del Sarto" accepts the void the other two heroes shun.

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Stuart, Daniel. "Stalking Dickens: Predatory Disturbances in the Novels of Charles Dickens." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2020. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1707270/.

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Stalking in the nineteenth century was a dangerous, increasingly violent behavior pattern circulating in society. It was as much a criminal act then as now, and one the Victorian novel exposes as a problematic form of unwanted intrusion. The realist novel of this period alongside its more sensational counterparts not only depicts scenes of close surveillance, obsession, and harassment as harmful. It exposes the inability of social laws to regulate such conduct. I argue Charles Dickens is the most pivotal figure in observing how stalking emerged as not only a fictional motif, but as an inescapable, criminal behavior pattern. Throughout his work and its nuanced characters, Dickens reveals underlying truths about stalking and stalkers. Early books like Barnaby Rudge and The Old Curiosity Shop feature Gothic villains and predatory motifs adapted from prior literary genres. The works of his middle period foreground stalking in the context of the modern city and institutional power. In the final decade of his life, problems associated with unrequited love examine the pathological patterns of romantic obsession in modern stalker archetypes. Such an analysis and its transformative insight perceive crucial truths about unwanted intrusion, social attachment, and problem of predatory behavior.

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Harvey, Alban Thomas. "The historical novels of Charles Dickens." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.293764.

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Henson, Louise. "Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell and Victorian science." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.323196.

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Vlassova-Place, Irina. "Mythological aspects of fiction of Charles Dickens." Thesis, University of Reading, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.263049.

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Coats, Jerry B. (Jerry Brian). "Charles Dickens and Idiolects of Alienation." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277905/.

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A part of Charles Dickens's genius with character is his deftness at creating an appropriate idiolect for each character. Through their discourse, characters reveal not only themselves, but also Dickens's comment on social features that shape their communication style. Three specific idiolects are discussed in this study. First, Dickens demonstrates the pressures that an occupation exerts on Alfred Jingle from Pickwick Papers. Second, Mr. Gradgrind from Hard Times is robbed of his ability to communicate as Dickens highlights the errors of Utilitarianism. Finally, four characters from three novels demonstrate together the principle that social institutions can silence their defenseless constituents. Linguistic evaluation of speech habits illuminates Dickens's message that social structures can injure individuals. In addition, this study reveals the consistent and intuitive narrative art of Dickens.

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Hooper, Keith William James. "Dickens : faith and his early fiction." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/68154.

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This thesis, focusing on Dickens' early work ('Our Parish'to The Old Curiosity Shop), explorers the nature and fictional expression of the author's faith and the historical ecclesiastical elements of his writing. Dickens passionately believed that the Church was failing in its Christian responsibility to the poor. Contrary to contemporary religious thought, he neither accepted that the appalling depravation endured by the poor esulted from their personal sin, or that the imperative of spiritual redemption negated the Church's responsibility to ease their physical distress. He also realised that among his predominately London-based middle-class readership there was genuine ignorance of the reality of the suffering endured by the poor. In his early fiction Dickens used a two stage approach to communicate his personal beliefs about the poor. The first, adopted in 'Our Parish' and the first seven chapters of Oliver Twist, involved the graphic description of the suffering endured by the poor and the exposure of the inadequacies of the parochial system upon which they depended. Next, Dickens introduces his readers to a series of characters who embody his perception of Christian charity. Mr Pickwick, Mr brownlow and Charles Cheeryble (collectively referred to in this thesis as 'Charitable Angels')are, contrary to parochial officials and those who participate in charitable activity for their own selfish ends, shown to make a difference in the lives of those they assist. Dickens hoped that his readers would be inspired to emulate their actions.

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Racadio, D. S. "The comic, the grotesque and the uncanny in Charles Dickens." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.280064.

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Books on the topic "Dickens, Charles, Religion in literature"

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Oulton, Carolyn. Literature and religion in mid-Victorian England: From Dickens to Eliot. Houndmills, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

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The scriptures of Charles Dickens: Novels of ideology, novels of the self. Aldershot, Hants, England: Ashgate, 2004.

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Dickens and the unreal city: Searching for spiritual significance in nineteenth-century London. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

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The fairy-tale literature of Charles Dickens, Christina Rossetti, and George MacDonald: Antidotes to the Victorian spiritual crisis. Lewiston, N.Y: Edwin Mellen Press, 2008.

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Charles Dickens. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

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Charles Dickens. London: Wayland, 2010.

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Martin, Christopher. Charles Dickens. Hove: Wayland, 1989.

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Dailey, Donna. Charles Dickens. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2005.

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Charles Dickens. Vero Beach, FL: Rourke Corp., 1990.

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Harold, Bloom. Charles Dickens. New York: Chelsea House, 1987.

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Gillooly, Eileen. "Charles Dickens, Dramatist." In A Companion to British Literature, 1–13. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118827338.ch76.

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Paroissien, David. "Literature and Life." In Selected Letters of Charles Dickens, 325–43. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17928-2_10.

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Shattock, Joanne, Joanne Wilkes, Katherine Newey, and Valerie Sanders. "Charles Dickens, The Guild of Literature and Art." In Literary and Cultural Criticism from the Nineteenth Century, 86–89. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003199915-15.

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Marsh, Nicholas. "The Place of Hard Times and Bleak House in English Literature." In Charles Dickens: Hard Times/Bleak House, 193–207. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-37958-0_9.

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Wales, Katie. "Chapter 2. The role of analogy in Charles Dickens’ Pictures from Italy." In Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 21–29. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lal.28.02wal.

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Haschemi Yekani, Elahe. "Consolidations: Dickens and Seacole." In Familial Feeling, 223–71. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58641-6_5.

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AbstractDiscussing Charles Dickens’s American Notes for General Circulation and Bleak House in conjunction with Mary Seacole’s Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands this chapter traces a crucial shift in mid-nineteenth-century literature which consolidates British imperialism via “enlightened” differentiation from the United States and culminates in the more paternalistic rhetoric following the 1857 Sepoy Rebellion. While travelling both authors construct conciliatory images of the English home that do not overtly challenge the sensibilities of the British reading audience. In her travel account, Seacole utilises a confident tone often directly addressing her readers more familiarly than the Black authors before her. Dickens too uses excessive overt narrative comment to promote an idea of a shared sense of indignation at lacking American manners in his travelogue and at the misguided international philanthropy of Mrs Jellyby in Bleak House. Both their consolidating tonalities rest less on complex introspection than on an explicit reassuring British familiarity. However, while Dickens increasingly understands British familial feeling as tied to whiteness, Seacole contests such racialised conceptions of national belonging.

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Haschemi Yekani, Elahe. "Introduction: Provincialising the Rise of the British Novel in the Transatlantic Public Sphere." In Familial Feeling, 1–66. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58641-6_1.

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AbstractIn the introduction to Familial Feeling, Haschemi Yekani proposes a transatlantic reframing of Ian Watt’s famous work on the rise of the novel. Offering a critical overview of the intertwined histories of enslavement and modernity, this chapter proposes a focus on transatlantic entanglement already in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century to challenge the more prevalent retrospective paradigm of “writing back” in postcolonial studies. Introducing the concepts of familial feeling and entangled tonalities, Haschemi Yekani describes the affective dimension of literature that shapes notions of national belonging. This is then discussed in the book in relation to the four entangled aesthetic tonalities of familial feeling in early Black Atlantic writing and canonical British novels by Daniel Defoe, Olaudah Equiano, Ignatius Sancho, Laurence Sterne, Jane Austen, Robert Wedderburn, Charles Dickens, and Mary Seacole. To provide context for the following literary readings, scholarship on sentimentalism and the abolition of slavery is introduced and significantly extended, especially in relation to the shifts from moral sentiment and the abolition of the slave trade in the eighteenth century to social reform and the rise of the new imperialism and colonial expansion in the nineteenth century.

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Mangham, Andrew. "Charles Dickens." In The Science of Starving in Victorian Literature, Medicine, and Political Economy, 146–86. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198850038.003.0005.

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This chapter illustrates how Charles Dickens found the materiality of starvation a powerful method for addressing the social injustices that angered him. Less balanced than Gaskell and less conflicted than Kingsley, he pulled no punches when it came to the ‘Parrots of Society’—those subscribers to hypocritical, dogmatic interpretations of political economy whose efforts to deal with social problems became, he believed, abortive subscriptions to a malicious laissez faire. The chapter argues that we need to understand these red-hot polemics as a response to, and an appropriation of, the scientific registers of men like Thomas Southwood Smith. What Dickens found in science was a materialism that allowed his challenges to the shallow cant of reformers and politicians to morph into an attack on their perceived stupidity: Dickens was able to use the science of starving as a means of grounding a radical position within a thoughtful materialist one.

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Hetherington, Naomi, and Richa Dwor. "Annie Besant and C. W. [Charles Webster] Leadbeater, Thought-Forms." In Nineteenth-Century Religion, Literature and Society, 115–20. Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351272162-25.

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"‘Mutiny Echoes: India, Britons, and Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities', Nineteenth-Century Literature, 62, pp. 48–87." In Global Dickens, 465–504. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315254265-34.

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Conference papers on the topic "Dickens, Charles, Religion in literature"

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"The Analysis of Charles Dickens’ Novel A Christmas Carol—―From the Essence of the Novel to Western Culture." In 2017 4th International Conference on Literature, Linguistics and Arts. Francis Academic Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.25236/iclla.2017.58.

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