Dickens and Thackeray: Punishment and ForgivenessOhio University Press, 1995 - 504 lappuses 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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... joke here , of course , is that even the means for appeasing divine dis- pleasure are misappropriated . The lesson of this tale applies to the novel as a whole , and its themes extend throughout the narrative . Though these themes are ...
... joke ; as something too absurd to be considered seriously , by any ra- tional man " chides her for being so emotionally moved by the book , which he calls " mere rags and ink ' ” ( 264 , 269 ) . Texts of this kind , however , are a ...
... joke . Snitchey's expres- sion of life as a game introduces a more sinister note . ' I don't stand up for life in general , ' he added , rubbing his hands and chuckling , ' it's full of folly ; full of something worse . Professions of ...
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Attitudes Toward Punishment and Forgiveness | 3 |
Some of the contents of this study appeared elsewhere in different form Mate | 28 |
Education | 30 |
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