Introduction: Dickens, work, and the Victorians -- Work and the shaping of personality -- Gendering the laboring body -- Dickens and the professions -- Dickens and domestic management -- Dickens's idle men -- Epilogue: Occupation, disguise, and personality in Dickens's late novels
Summary
The first full-length study on the subject of Dickens and work, this book argues that, rather than engaging with work as an abstract, quasi-religious and entirely benign value, Dickens's writings demonstrate the varied ways in which it shapes gender identity and personality
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-162) and index
