Dickens and Thackeray

Punishment and Forgiveness

By: John R. Reed, John Robert Reed

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Attitudes toward punishment and forgiveness in English society of the nineteenth century came, for the most part, out of Christianity. In actual experience the ideal was not often met, but in the literature of the time the model was important. For novelists attempting to tell exciting and dramatic stories, violent and criminal activities played an important role, and, according to convention, had to be corrected through poetic justice or human punishment. Both Dickens' and Thackeray's novels subscribed to the ideal, but dealt with the dilemma it presented in slightly different ways.

At a time when a great deal of attention has been directed toward economic production and consumption as the bases for value, Reed's well-documented study reviving moral belief as a legitimate concern for the analysis of nineteenth-century English texts is particularly illuminating.

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Acknowledgements	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Notes	p. xvi
The Context	p. 1
Attitudes Toward Punishment and Forgiveness in Moral Texts of the Victorian Period	p. 3
Education	p. 30
Legal Punishment	p. 45
Dickens	p. 63
Early Dickens	p. 65
Oliver Twist	p. 76
Nicholas Nickleby	p. 90
The Old Curiosity Shop	p. 107
Barnaby Rudge	p. 122
Martin Chuzzlewit	p. 134
Dickens' Christmas Narratives	p. 154
Dombey and Son	p. 169
David Copperfield	p. 187
Bleak House	p. 207
Hard Times	p. 219
Little Dorrit	p. 234
A Tale of Two Cities	p. 257
Great Expectations	p. 270
Our Mutual Friend	p. 289
Part Three	p. 305
Early Tackeray	p. 307
Vanity Fair	p. 329
Notes	p. 350
Pendennis	p. 353
Henry Esmond	p. 377
The Newcomes	p. 400
The Virginians	p. 423
The Adventures of Philip	p. 442
Roundabout Papers and Denis Duval	p. 461
Conclusion	p. 470
Notes	p. 480
Bibliography	p. 482
Index	p. 497
A Note About the Author	p. 505
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