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cken His Parables, and His Reader s i D cken His Parables, and His Reader Linda M. Lewis University of Missouri Press Columbia and London s i D Copyright © 2011 by The Curators of the University of Missouri University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri 65201 Printed and bound in the United States of America All rights reserved 5 4 3 2 1 15 14 13 12 11 Cataloging-in-Publication data available from the Library of Congress. ISBN 978-0-8262-1947-3 This paper meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, Z39.48, 1984. Design and composition: Jennifer Cropp Printing and binding: Integrated Book Technology, Inc. Typefaces: Minion, Pepita, and Bernhard For Franklin Lee Lewis friend, partner, lover, husband, pal ontents Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations for Works by Charles Dickens xi Introduction C 1 hapter The Child as Christian Pilgrim in Oliver Twist and The Old Curiosity Shop 22 hapter The Mortal and Immortal Houses of Dombey and Son 57 C 1 hapter Prodigal Children and Tearful Reunions in David Copperfield 88 C 2 hapter Casting the First Stone: Judgment Day in Bleak House 120 C 3 hapter “Forgive our Debts as We Forgive our Debtors”: Indebtedness in Little Dorrit 153 C 4 hapter Allegory of the Martyred Savior in Hard Times and A Tale of Two Cities 184 C 5 hapter The Good and Faithful Servant of Our Mutual Friend 215 C 6 Afterword 247 Notes 251 C 7 Bibliography 277 Index 291 cknowledgments For their critical readings of various chapters of this book, I express my sin- cere gratitude to Antje Anderson, Sean Grass, Aubrey Streit Krug, Majkin Holm- quist, Trudy Lewis, Kristin VanTassel, Cody Whetstone, and Naomi Wood. I also acknowledge and thanAk two anonymous readers who reviewed the manu- script for the University of Missouri Press. I follow these statements of grati- tude with the typical caveat that while the assistance was exceptional, the errors are all my own. For access to research materials, I thank the Dickens Project, University of California at Santa Cruz, and John O. Jordan, Director. The pleasant months I spent on the Santa Cruz campus were made all the more pleasant by the hos- pitality of JoAnna Rottke, Project Coordinator, to whom I am much indebted. The library staff of Bethany College, where I teach, has also been consistently and extraordinarily helpful. I am grateful to Denise Carson, Library Director, and her staff, in particular Mary Foster and Brittany Torres. For a sabbatical leave, I thank Bethany College for the opportunity to spend a year absorbed in Dickens studies. A version of parts of Chapter 7 appeared in my article, “The Private Servant, the Public Servant, and the ‘Good and Faithful Servant’ in Dickens’s Our Mu- tual Friend,” published in Forum on Public Policy. I gratefully acknowledge that journal’s permission to use the material in this book. Collaborating with the University of Missouri Press is invariably a pleasant experience. I gratefully acknowledge Editor-in-Chief Clair Willcox, for his sup- port of my scholarly endeavors and for his good advice. Additionally, I thank Sara Davis and Tim Fox, copy editors; Beth Chandler, marketing; and LynDell Smith, publicity. I am fortunate to have married a life partner who gives me unflagging sup- port, and I fondly dedicate this book to him. For their love and encouragement, I also thank my terrific family: Trudy Lewis, Terry Hall, Mike Barrett, Thom- as Hall, and all the grandchildren—Jude, Eddie, Madeline, Nicholas, Lauren, Cliff, and Sylvia.
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