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Author | : Charles Dickens |
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Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 1848 |
Genre | : English fiction |
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Paul Dombey is a cold, unbending, pompous merchant, and a widower with two children - Paul and Florence. His chief ambition is to perpetuate the firm-name. He dreams of passing his business on to his son. Dombey dotes on his son, and neglects and mistreats his daughter.The "son" in the title of the book is incapable of ever joining the firm. A sickly and odd child, Paul dies at the age of six. Dombey pours his resentment and anger out on his daughter, whom he pushes away despite her efforts to earn her father's love.Eventually Dombey remarries, after literally acquiring his new wife from her father in a commercial transaction. Dombey is as bad a husband as he is a father and his marriage is loveless. His new bride hates Dombey and eventually runs off with Canker, his business manager. Dombey characteristically blames Florence for this reversal, and strikes her, causing Florence to run away as well.Abandoned by everyone, Dombey loses his business and goes half insane, living in his decaying house. Dombey is eventually reconciled to his daughter, who always a doormat forgives her father........
Author | : Charles Dickens |
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Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 185? |
Genre | : English fiction |
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Author | : Charles Dickens |
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Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 188? |
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Author | : Supritha Rajan |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2015-04-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0472120948 |
No questions are more pressing today than the ethical dimensions of global capitalism in relation to an unevenly secularized modernity. A Tale of Two Capitalisms offers a timely response to these questions by reexamining the intellectual history of capitalist economics during the nineteenth century. Rajan’s ambitious book traces the neglected relationships between nineteenth-century political economy, anthropology, and literature in order to demonstrate how these discourses buttress a dominant narrative of self-interested capitalism that obscures a submerged narrative within political economy. This submerged narrative discloses political economy’s role in burgeoning theories of religion, as well as its underlying ethos of reciprocity, communality, and just distribution. Drawing on an impressive range of literary, anthropological, and economic writings from the eighteenth through the twenty-first century, Rajan offers an inventive, interdisciplinary account of why this second narrative of capitalism has so long escaped our notice. The book presents an unprecedented genealogy of key anthropological and economic concepts, demonstrating how notions of sacrifice, the sacred, ritual, totemism, and magic remained conceptually intertwined with capitalist theories of value and exchange in both sociological and literary discourses. Rajan supplies an original framework for discussing the ethical ideals that continue to inform contemporary global capitalism and its fraught relationship to the secular. Its revisionary argument brings new insight into the history of capitalist thought and modernity that will engage scholars across a variety of disciplines.
Author | : Donna Tussing Orwin |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780804757034 |
Consequences of Consciousness shows how great Russian authors conversed with each other through their fictions as they explored both the limits and the autonomy of subjective consciousness.
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Total Pages | : 652 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Pleading |
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Author | : Charles Dickens |
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Total Pages | : 606 |
Release | : 1867 |
Genre | : Businesspeople |
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Author | : Charles Dickens |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 2021-10-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3752521228 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.
Author | : Charles Dickens |
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Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Children |
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Author | : Ian Ward |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2014-11-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 178225370X |
The Victorians worried about many things, prominent among their worries being the 'condition' of England and the 'question' of its women. Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England revisits these particular anxieties, concentrating more closely upon four 'crimes' which generated especial concern amongst contemporaries: adultery, bigamy, infanticide and prostitution. Each engaged questions of sexuality and its regulation, legal, moral and cultural, for which reason each attracted the considerable interest not just of lawyers and parliamentarians, but also novelists and poets and perhaps most importantly those who, in ever-larger numbers, liked to pass their leisure hours reading about sex and crime. Alongside statutes such as the 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act and the 1864 Contagious Diseases Act, Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England contemplates those texts which shaped Victorian attitudes towards England's 'condition' and the 'question' of its women: the novels of Dickens, Thackeray and Eliot, the works of sensationalists such as Ellen Wood and Mary Braddon, and the poetry of Gabriel and Christina Rossetti. Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England is a richly contextual commentary on a critical period in the evolution of modern legal and cultural attitudes to the relation of crime, sexuality and the family.