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The Moral Art of Dickens This page intentionally left blank The Moral Art of Dickens Essays by Barbara Hardy ATHLONE Published by The Athlone Press 1970 44 Bedford Row, London fPCiR 4LT and 57 Washington Street, Dover, NH 03820 Reprinted 1985 © Copyright J97O Barbara Hardy British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Hardy, Barbara The moral art of Dickens : essays. i . Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -Criticism and interpretation I. Title 823'.8 PR4588 ISBN 0-485-11274-4 ISBN 0-485-12049-6 (pbk.) Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Hardy, Barbara Nathan. The moral art of Dickens. i. Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870—Religion and ethics. 2. Ethics in literature. 3. Moral conditions in literature. I. Title. PR4592.E8H 1985 82 '.8 85-18554 37 3 ISBN 0-485-11274-4 ISBN 0-485-12049-6 (pbk.) To Kate Hardy This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgements Part of Chapter i is drawn from my British Council Pamphlet, Charles Dickens: The Later Novels, Longmans, Green & Co Ltd, 1968. Chapter 2 was first published in Victorian Studies in 1961; Chapter 4 in The London Review in 1967; Chapter 5 in Dickens and the Twentieth Century, ed. J. Gross and G. Pearson, Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1962; and Chapter 7 in Essays in Criticism in 1963.1 am grateful to the editors and publishers for their permission to reprint. I want to express gratitude to Michael Slater, who has read the book and given valuable criticism and advice, and to various students of Birkbeck and Royal Holloway Colleges, with whom I have profitably discussed Dickens. I should also like to record my grateful memories of a happy winter (1964-5) spent in the English Department of the University of Dijon, where I wrote some of this book. B.H. VII This page intentionally left blank Contents Introduction xi Section One: General 1. Society and the Individual 3 2. The Change of Heart (i) 27 3. The Change of Heart (2) 57 Section Two: Particular 4. Pickwick Papers 81 5. Martin Chuzzlewit 100 6. David Copperfieldd 122 7. Great Expectations 139 ix
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