Dickens and the Bible

'What Providence Meant'

By:

Jennifer Gribble

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Hardback

Series:

The Nineteenth Century Series

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At a time when biblical authority was under challenge from the Higher Criticism and evolutionary science, ‘what providence meant’ was the most keenly contested of questions. This book takes up the controversial subject of Dickens and religion, and offers a significant contribution to the interdisciplinary area of religion and literature. In a close study of major novels, it argues that networks of biblical allusion reveal the Judeo-Christian grand narrative as key to his development as a writer, and as the ontological ground on which he stands to appeal to ‘the conscience of a Christian people’. Engaging the biblical narrative in dialogue with other contemporary narratives that concern themselves with origins, destinations, and hermeneutic decipherments, the inimitable Dickens affirms the Bible’s still-active role in popular culture. The providential thinking of two twentieth-century theorists, Bakhtin and Ricoeur, sheds light on an exploration of Dickens’s narrative theology.

Author Biography:

Jennifer Gribble is a graduate of the Universities of Melbourne and Oxford and is Honorary Associate Professor of English at the University of Sydney, where she has taught for most of her academic career. She has published widely on Victorian and Australian Literature. Her previous publications include The Lady of Shalott in the Victorian Novel (1983), Christina Stead (1994), and the 1998 Penguin edition of George Eliot’s Scenes of Clerical Life.

Release date Australia

December 11th, 2020

Author

Jennifer Gribble

Series

The Nineteenth Century Series

Pages

216

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

ISBN-13

9780367508654

Product ID

33920432

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