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Sixteen scholars from across the globe come together in Charles Dickens as Agent of Change to show how Dickens was (and still is) the consummate change agent. His works, bursting with restless energy in the Inimitable's protean style, registered and commented on the ongoing changes in the Victorian world while the Victorians' fictional and factional worlds kept (and keep) changing. The essays from notable Dickens scholars—Malcolm Andrews, Matthias Bauer, Joel J. Brattin, Doris Feldmann, Herbert Foltinek, Robert Heaman, Michael Hollington, Bert Hornback, Norbert Lennartz, Chris Louttit, Jerome Meckier, Nancy Aycock Metz, David Paroissien, Christopher Pittard, and Robert Tracy—suggest the many ways in which the notion of change has found entry into and is negotiated in Dickens' works through four aspects: social change, political and ideological change, literary change, and cultural change. An afterword by the late Edgar Rosenberg adds a personal account of how Dickens changed the life of one eminent Dickensian.
The consequences of high-end inequality seep into almost every aspect of human life: it is not just a question for economists. In this highly accessible new work, Professor Shaviro takes an interdisciplinary approach to explore how great works of literature have provided some of the most incisive accounts of inequality and its social and cultural ramifications over the last two centuries. Through perceptive close readings of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and Edith Wharton, among others, he not only demonstrates how these accounts are still relevant today, but how they can illuminate our understanding of our current situation and broaden our own perspective beyond the merely economic.
Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The Seven Poor Travelers by Charles Dickens.Starting with the Christmas bonus number for 1854, The Seven Poor Travelers, Dickens put the stories into a general framework by adding special openings and endings and providing brief links between the segments. Dickens himself usually wrote two of the segments (although he did write one, sometimes three). He always set the general theme, and usually wrote the entire framework. At first, the setting was sober and utilitarian (although the dramatic situation was often whimsical); The typical strategy was to gather a group of strangers and have them out of their time telling stories (the dramatic situation generally required such fun). In the latest Christmas issues, Dickens paid more attention to the setting and creating a realistic and sometimes suspenseful situation for the narrative.The Seven Poor Travelers takes place on Christmas Eve in Rochester at the charity hospice founded in 1579 by Richard Watts, a royal hospice that Dickens knew well from his childhood days. According to Watts's will, his hospice was to provide six poor travelers (provided they were not rogues or supervisors) with free accommodation and entertainment for one night and four pence. In the opening section of The Seven Poor Travelers, titled 'The First', the narrator, he brings travelers up to seven,
We all know we should give to charity, but who really does? In his controversial study of America's giving habits, Arthur C. Brooks shatters stereotypes about charity in America-including the myth that the political Left is more compassionate than the Right. Brooks, a preeminent public policy expert, spent years researching giving trends in America, and even he was surprised by what he found. In Who Really Cares, he identifies the forces behind American charity: strong families, church attendance, earning one's own income (as opposed to receiving welfare), and the belief that individuals-not government-offer the best solution to social ills. But beyond just showing us who the givers and non-givers in America really are today, Brooks shows that giving is crucial to our economic prosperity, as well as to our happiness, health, and our ability to govern ourselves as a free people.