Dickens and Thackeray: Punishment and ForgivenessOhio University Press, 1995 - Всего страниц: 504 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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... Quilp develops animosities quickly . He takes an imme- diate dislike to Kit Nubbles and eventually engineers his arrest . Watching Kit being led off charged as a thief , Quilp taunts him with a variation on Kit's earlier insult to the ...
... Quilp before the dwarf can do the same to him . Sampson gives testimony against Quilp and then adds , " Punish Quilp , gentlemen . Weigh heavi- ly upon him . Grind him down . Tread him under foot . He has done as much by me , for many ...
... Quilp is the most profound representative of evil in this story , but there are others who also require severe punishment , notably the Brasses and Fred Trent . The Brasses are presented as repulsive from the start , both physically and ...
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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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