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NESTOR, Mihaela. "Rolul vestimentației în definirea personajelor din Documentele Postume ale Clubului Pickwick." ANALELE UNIVERSITĂȚII DIN CRAIOVA SERIA ȘTIINȚE FILOLOGICE LIMBI STRĂINE APLICATE 2024, no. 1 (July 19, 2024): 369–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.52744/aucsflsa.2024.01.40.

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Anghelescu Irimia, Mihaela. Dict ionarul universului britanic, Humanitas, Bucuresti, 1999, 2002 Bottez, Monica. Aspects of the Victorian Novel Reccurent Images in Charles Dickens's Work, București, 1985. Chesterton, G.K. Charles Dickens, Ed. Univers, 1970. Carlyle, Thomas. Filosofia vestimentației, Ed. Institutul European, Iasi,1998. Dickens, Charles. Documentele postume ale clubului Pickwick, Ed. de stat pentru Literatura si Arta, Bucuresti, 1954. Nanu, Adina. Arta, stil, costum, Noi media print, Bucuresti, 2006 Veres, Grigore. Opera lui Charles Dickens in Romania, Minerva, 1982.
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Buckland, Adelene. "Charles Dickens, Man of Science." Victorian Literature and Culture 49, no. 3 (2021): 423–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150319000457.

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Though there is now a vast body of work detailing Dickens's extensive interests in contemporary science, technology, and medicine, still there is an overriding sense that Dickens was in energetic contact with scientific knowledge but had no precise role in its constitution, creation, or contestation. In this essay, I argue instead that Dickens was one of the most powerful communicators of scientific knowledge in the mid-Victorian period. Drawing on James A. Secord's model of “knowledge in transit,” the idea that the content of scientific knowledge is arrived at at the same time as audiences for knowledge are constituted or imagined, I also argue that Dickens had a significant role to play in shaping the practices, objects, and values of scientific work. If we have lost sight of this Dickens, I argue, it is because the kinds of science he advocated and the power he wielded threatened other literary-scientific practitioners—including G. H. Lewes—who reshaped Dickens's reception in ways that suited their own aims and agendas. Dickens—a vocal exponent of mesmerists, spontaneous combustionists, sanitary campaigners, early-development hypothesizers, and fantastical engineers—had a far more direct and central role in scientific culture than has yet been understood.
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MacMillan, Lorena N. "The Afterlife of Charles Dickens: His Posthumous Impact on Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism." Dickens Studies Annual 53, no. 2 (September 1, 2022): 271–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/dickstudannu.53.2.0271.

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ABSTRACT Although an avid skeptic, Charles Dickens can be found having conversations with spiritualist communities while he was alive—and after he was dead. The most intriguing use of Dickens’s name in the spiritualist community was through the American medium T. P. James, who became known as Dickens’s medium, and gained popularity when he published Part Second of the Mystery of Edwin Drood (1873) from the “spirit-pen of Charles Dickens.” In addition to the publication of the manuscript itself, writers for the spiritualist press were quick to attempt to prove or disprove the text’s validity. Later, James started his own spiritualist magazine, The Summerland Messenger (1874), which continued to publish short stories and social commentary from the “spirit-pen of Charles Dickens.” This article will analyze the various spiritualist messages that James included in Part Second while connecting it to the supernatural themes present in Dickens’s original novel. It will examine James’s claim that his manuscript was written through the spirit-pen of Charles Dickens, evaluating the text and its influence on its audience. It concludes that James, and the spiritualist press, used Dickens’s work and name to increase the followers of Spiritualism, proving that it was at its core, a community of readers.
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Barry, Herbert. "Characters Named Charles or Charley in Novels by Charles Dickens." Psychological Reports 101, no. 2 (October 2007): 497–500. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.101.2.497-500.

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12 fictional characters named Charles or Charley are contained in eight of the 14 completed novels by Charles Dickens. Most of the author's namesakes have humorous attributes, an unusually close relationship with one or more other characters, and a happy subsequent life. Three stages of the author's adult life are youthful, mature, and after separation from his wife. The fictional namesakes are most humorous in the author's youthful stage and least humorous after separation from his wife. The 12 fictional namesakes of Charles Dickens are compared with the two fictional namesakes of Jane Austen.
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Chesterton, G. K. "Charles Dickens." Chesterton Review 11, no. 4 (1985): 415–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/chesterton198511455.

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Monod, Sylvere, and Harland S. Nelson. "Charles Dickens." Modern Language Review 80, no. 2 (April 1985): 442. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3728701.

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Kennedy, Valerie. "Charles Dickens." English Studies 93, no. 2 (April 2012): 236–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2011.649071.

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Editorial Submission, Haworth. "Charles Dickens." Collection Management 8, no. 3-4 (November 22, 1986): 171–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j105v08n03_45.

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Jacoby, N. M. "Charles Dickens' Asthma." Journal of Medical Biography 3, no. 1 (February 1995): 34–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/096777209500300106.

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Bouvard, Luc. "Christine Huguet (éd.), Charles Dickens l’Inimitable (Charles Dickens the Inimitable)." Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens, no. 76 Automne (October 20, 2012): 152–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/cve.535.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Charles Dickens"

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JUBAULT, RICHARD. "L'hysterie chez charles dickens." Rennes 1, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992REN1M098.

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Malcolmson, Catherine Margaret. "Constructing Charles Dickens, 1900-1940." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/27742.

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This thesis examines the popular and cultural legacy of Charles Dickens in the period 1900-1940. During this period Dickens was largely ignored or derided within the academy but his works remained consistently marketable to a popular audience. The thesis explores Dickens’s mass cultural appeal, assessing what the term ‘Dickensian’ represented in the early decades of the twentieth century and evaluating Dickens’s role as a national figure. This thesis engages with recent scholarship in the fields of Dickens criticism, heritage studies and material culture to explore a popular appreciation of Dickens which is characterised by its language of feeling and affect. The first chapter situates Charles Dickens’s literary standing and cultural legacy in the light of both critical and popular responses to his work. The chapter charts the development of the Dickens Fellowship and examines the role of this literary society in constructing and promoting a selective public image of Dickens. Chapter Two examines the motivations behind different forms of collecting, and suggests that collecting can be understood as a form of popular engagement with Dickens’s writing. The chapter contends that Dickensian collecting differs significantly from broader collecting practices and can be viewed as a more generous model of collecting. The idea of collecting as a popular response to Dickens is extended in Chapter Three which takes as its focus one particular form of book collecting: the practice of grangerization. Grangerization is characterised as an alternative reading practice through which the experience of reading a text could be extended. Two further alternative reading practices are explored in Chapters Four and Five. Chapter Four demonstrates how in founding the ‘Dickens House Museum’, the Dickens Fellowship aimed to create a permanent memorial site for Dickens. The chapter highlights the language of feeling utilised in the promotional material for the museum and argues that the items selected for display were designed to produce an emotional and imaginative response in the museum’s visitors. Chapter Five considers how readers expressed their engagement with Dickens’s works through literary pilgrimages to sites from his novels. The chapter suggests that these pilgrimages represent an active reading of Dickens’s novels, which offer readers a participatory experience of immersion in the world of the narrative. It argues that this kind of immersive experience is generated by the strong affective responses of many readers to Dickens’s writings.
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Cook, Peter. "Charles Dickens : the Romantic legacy." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2017. http://arro.anglia.ac.uk/701688/.

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This thesis investigates the relationship between the fiction of Charles Dickens and the work of canonical Romantic Period authors: William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, and John Keats, with a view to assessing the influence of these Romantic writers on Dickens’s novels and stories. The reason for the investigation is that, while other influences on Dickens: the eighteenth-century novel, popular culture, melodrama, and the sentimental tradition have been thoroughly investigated recently, the influence of the Romantics has been relatively neglected. Four topics are identified: Childhood, Time, Progress, and Outsiders, which together constitute the main thematic aspects of Dickens’s debt to the Romantics. The use of imagery as a structural, unifying device, rather than a decorative, pictorial addition, is also identified as a significant common feature. Close readings of key Romantic texts, and eight of Dickens’s novels, draw out comparisons and contrasts, indicating the ways in which Dickens appropriated and adapted Romantic tropes and devices. It was found that the influence of the Romantics on Dickens’s fiction is more extensive and important than has previously been recognised. Essentially, Dickens turns to these Romantic tropes and devices to express his responses to the exponential growth of industrial, technological culture, and its effects on personal life and relationships, that was happening as he wrote. The modern society that provoked these complex responses did not exist when the eighteenth-century authors that Dickens loved were writing. The Romantics, on the other hand, witnessed the dawn of this new social order, and experimented with ways of expressing it. Dickens found in them a basis on which to build. These findings demonstrate that the Romantic legacy needs to be taken into account far more seriously in order to arrive at a balanced, fully-rounded understanding of Dickens’s achievement.
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Cook, Peter. "Charles Dickens: The Romantic Legacy." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2017. https://arro.anglia.ac.uk/id/eprint/701688/1/Cook_2017.pdf.

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This thesis investigates the relationship between the fiction of Charles Dickens and the work of canonical Romantic Period authors: William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, and John Keats, with a view to assessing the influence of these Romantic writers on Dickens’s novels and stories. The reason for the investigation is that, while other influences on Dickens: the eighteenth-century novel, popular culture, melodrama, and the sentimental tradition have been thoroughly investigated recently, the influence of the Romantics has been relatively neglected. Four topics are identified: Childhood, Time, Progress, and Outsiders, which together constitute the main thematic aspects of Dickens’s debt to the Romantics. The use of imagery as a structural, unifying device, rather than a decorative, pictorial addition, is also identified as a significant common feature. Close readings of key Romantic texts, and eight of Dickens’s novels, draw out comparisons and contrasts, indicating the ways in which Dickens appropriated and adapted Romantic tropes and devices. It was found that the influence of the Romantics on Dickens’s fiction is more extensive and important than has previously been recognised. Essentially, Dickens turns to these Romantic tropes and devices to express his responses to the exponential growth of industrial, technological culture, and its effects on personal life and relationships, that was happening as he wrote. The modern society that provoked these complex responses did not exist when the eighteenth-century authors that Dickens loved were writing. The Romantics, on the other hand, witnessed the dawn of this new social order, and experimented with ways of expressing it. Dickens found in them a basis on which to build. These findings demonstrate that the Romantic legacy needs to be taken into account far more seriously in order to arrive at a balanced, fully-rounded understanding of Dickens’s achievement.
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Gager, Valerie L. "Shakespeare and Dickens : the dynamics of influence /." Cambridge [GB] : Cambridge university press, 1996. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb358673157.

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Texte remanié de: Th. Ph. D.--Birmingham (GB)--Shakespeare institute, University of Birmingham, 1991. Titre de soutenance : "So potent art" : Shakespearean influences upon the works of Charles Dickens.
Contient une liste d'allusions à Shakespeare extraites de l'oeuvre de Dickens. Bibliogr. p.378-409. Index.
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Henery, James R. "A literary and theological analysis of selected novels by Charles Dickens for use in secondary schools and Christian education." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com.

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Sadrin, Anny. "L'Être et l'avoir dans les romans de Charles Dickens." Lille : Paris : Atelier national reprod. th. Univ. Lille 3 ; diffusion Didier Erudition, 1985. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36091112k.

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Stuart, Daniel. "Stalking Dickens: Predatory Disturbances in the Novels of Charles Dickens." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2020. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1707270/.

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Stalking in the nineteenth century was a dangerous, increasingly violent behavior pattern circulating in society. It was as much a criminal act then as now, and one the Victorian novel exposes as a problematic form of unwanted intrusion. The realist novel of this period alongside its more sensational counterparts not only depicts scenes of close surveillance, obsession, and harassment as harmful. It exposes the inability of social laws to regulate such conduct. I argue Charles Dickens is the most pivotal figure in observing how stalking emerged as not only a fictional motif, but as an inescapable, criminal behavior pattern. Throughout his work and its nuanced characters, Dickens reveals underlying truths about stalking and stalkers. Early books like Barnaby Rudge and The Old Curiosity Shop feature Gothic villains and predatory motifs adapted from prior literary genres. The works of his middle period foreground stalking in the context of the modern city and institutional power. In the final decade of his life, problems associated with unrequited love examine the pathological patterns of romantic obsession in modern stalker archetypes. Such an analysis and its transformative insight perceive crucial truths about unwanted intrusion, social attachment, and problem of predatory behavior.
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Harvey, Alban Thomas. "The historical novels of Charles Dickens." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.293764.

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Coats, Jerry B. (Jerry Brian). "Charles Dickens and Idiolects of Alienation." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277905/.

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A part of Charles Dickens's genius with character is his deftness at creating an appropriate idiolect for each character. Through their discourse, characters reveal not only themselves, but also Dickens's comment on social features that shape their communication style. Three specific idiolects are discussed in this study. First, Dickens demonstrates the pressures that an occupation exerts on Alfred Jingle from Pickwick Papers. Second, Mr. Gradgrind from Hard Times is robbed of his ability to communicate as Dickens highlights the errors of Utilitarianism. Finally, four characters from three novels demonstrate together the principle that social institutions can silence their defenseless constituents. Linguistic evaluation of speech habits illuminates Dickens's message that social structures can injure individuals. In addition, this study reveals the consistent and intuitive narrative art of Dickens.
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Books on the topic "Charles Dickens"

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Martin, Christopher. Charles Dickens. Hove: Wayland, 1989.

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Smiley, Jane. Charles Dickens. Waterville, Me: Thorndike Press, 2002.

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Smith, Grahame. Charles Dickens. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24489-8.

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Pykett, Lyn. Charles Dickens. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4039-1919-9.

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1952-, Bell Charlie, ed. Charles Dickens. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2001.

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Eugene, Goodheart, ed. Charles Dickens. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 2011.

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Harold, Bloom. Charles Dickens. New York: Chelsea House, 1987.

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Smiley, Jane. Charles Dickens. Waterville, Me: Thorndike Press, 2002.

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Hunter, Nigel. Charles Dickens. New York: Bookwright Press, 1989.

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Champion, Neil. Charles Dickens. Chicago: Heinemann Library, 2002.

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Maack, Annegret. "Charles Dickens." In Kindler Kompakt: Märchen, 128–30. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-04359-7_25.

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Maack, Annegret. "Dickens, Charles." In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 1. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_8361-1.

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Klotz, Volker. "Charles Dickens." In Das europäische Kunstmärchen, 256–70. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-03204-1_20.

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Maack, Annegret. "Charles Dickens." In Kindler Kompakt: Englische Literatur, 19. Jahrhundert, 90–96. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05527-9_15.

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Maack, Annegret. "Charles Dickens." In Kindler Kompakt Kriminalliteratur, 62–65. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05537-8_11.

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Foltinek, Herbert. "Dickens, Charles." In Englischsprachige Autoren, 75–79. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-02951-5_33.

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Wilkes, Joanne. "Charles Dickens." In The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part I Volume 2, 119–43. London: Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003513162-8a.

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Shattock, Joanne. "Charles Dickens." In The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part I Volume 1, 57–78. London: Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003513155-8.

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Wilkes, Joanne. "‘Charles Dickens’." In The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part I Volume 2, 117–18. London: Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003513162-8.

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Pykett, Lyn. "Introduction: the Dickens Phenomenon and the Dickens Industry." In Charles Dickens, 1–22. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4039-1919-9_1.

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Conference papers on the topic "Charles Dickens"

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Huang, Xiaohui. "Charles Dickens' Critical Realism in David Copperfield." In 4th International Conference on Management Science, Education Technology, Arts, Social Science and Economics 2016. Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/msetasse-16.2016.267.

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Neamah Almkhelif, Shaymaa. "A Psychoanalytic View of Louisa's Character in Charles Dickens' Novel Hard Times." In VIII. International Congress of Humanities and Educational Research. Rimar Academy, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.47832/ijhercongress8-11.

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The current study considers Sigmund Freud's theory of Psychoanalysis in Charles Dickens' novel Hard Times. It aims to analyze the character of Louisa Gradgrind from a psychoanalytic perspective. Theory of Psychoanalysis performs this task as it deals with the analysis of the human mind. Sigmund Freud is the most prominent psychologist who developed the theory of Psychoanalysis. The field is established as Freud starts treating a young woman, who suffers massive hysterical attacks in 1881. Later, Freud investigates the unconscious under normal and abnormal conditions. Furthermore, Freud develops the theory as soon as he introduces The Interpretation of Dreams to the field of Psychology. This book, which is written in 1900, marks a turning point in the field because it tackles the role of dreams, as a part of the unconscious, in revealing the mechanisms of fears, delusions and fixed ideas that are rooted in childhood experiences. Hence, the study takes the character of Louisa as an example through which Dickens psychoanalytically manifests the way in which the mentioned mechanisms work in the human mind and their impact on the other aspects of life
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"The Analysis of Charles Dickens’ Novel A Christmas Carol—―From the Essence of the Novel to Western Culture." In 2017 International Conference on Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities. Francis Academic Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.25236/ssah.2017.68.

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"The Analysis of Charles Dickens’ Novel A Christmas Carol—―From the Essence of the Novel to Western Culture." In 2017 4th International Conference on Literature, Linguistics and Arts. Francis Academic Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.25236/iclla.2017.58.

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Necula, Lidia Mihaela. "THE END JUSTIFIES THE MEANS OR, WHEN TEACHERS IN THEIR PRIME (MURIEL SPARK) NEVER LET GO (KAZUO ISHIGURO) IN HARD TIMES (CHARLES DICKENS)." In 10th SWS International Scientific Conferences on ART and HUMANITIES - ISCAH 2023. SGEM WORLD SCIENCE, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.35603/sws.iscah.2023/s28.09.

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Years and writing signatures apart, it would seem that Charles Dickens�s Hard Times has very little to do, if anything, with Muriel Spark�s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and/ or with Kazuo Ishiguro�s Never Let me Go for that matter. And yet, all of these three novels operate, in various degrees, with what seems to have always been a common life principle for many, regardless of the temporal or geographic co(n)text at hand. Dicken�s Hard Times portrays characters who prioritize facts, figures, and material gain over the emotional and moral aspects of life. The utilitarian approach of valuing measurable outcomes and productivity above all else is presented as dehumanizing and detrimental to individuals and society. Although it does not directly pursue a utilitarian philosophy, The Prime of Miss Brodie does shed light on the complexities of personal influence and the potential consequences of actions: as a character, Miss Brodie raises questions about the ethical implications of pursuing personal ambitions at the expense of others and the limitations of an individualistic approach to achieving happiness and fulfilment. And true as it may be that Muriel Spark�s novel does not directly address utilitarianism as a philosophical concept, it is possible to analyse Miss Brodie, her actions, her beliefs as well as her impact on her students from a utilitarian perspective since the latter emphasizes the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people. Finally, Ishiguro�s speculative Never Let Me Go presents a dystopian society where clones are created for the sole purpose of providing organ donations to others thus raising further questions about the ethics of sacrificing a few for the well-being of many, as well as the nature of humanity and the value of individual lives. Every single one of these three novels explores utilitarian philosophies of life by looking into the aftermath entailed by the prioritizing of individuals� happiness and pleasure (on a small scale), or of societal well-being (on a large scale). Therein, readers are challenged to reflect upon the complexities and ethical dilemmas inherent in pursuing the greatest good for the greatest number. The end justifies the means can be seen operating in various degrees and in different ways in all three texts, reflecting back the unique contexts and themes of their respective stories. Seen like this, these novels become lenses mediating ethical dilemmas, obliquely criticising societal norms or raising awareness to the consequences of sacrificing individual rights and moral considerations for the sake of societal or personal goals.
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Necula, Lidia Mihaela. "THE END JUSTIFIES THE MEANS OR, WHEN TEACHERS IN THEIR PRIME (MURIEL SPARK) NEVER LET GO (KAZUO ISHIGURO) IN HARD TIMES (CHARLES DICKENS)." In 10th SWS International Scientific Conferences on ART and HUMANITIES - ISCAH 2023. SGEM WORLD SCIENCE, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.35603/sws.iscah.2023/s10.09.

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Years and writing signatures apart, it would seem that Charles Dickens�s Hard Times has very little to do, if anything, with Muriel Spark�s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and/ or with Kazuo Ishiguro�s Never Let me Go for that matter. And yet, all of these three novels operate, in various degrees, with what seems to have always been a common life principle for many, regardless of the temporal or geographic co(n)text at hand. Dicken�s Hard Times portrays characters who prioritize facts, figures, and material gain over the emotional and moral aspects of life. The utilitarian approach of valuing measurable outcomes and productivity above all else is presented as dehumanizing and detrimental to individuals and society. Although it does not directly pursue a utilitarian philosophy, The Prime of Miss Brodie does shed light on the complexities of personal influence and the potential consequences of actions: as a character, Miss Brodie raises questions about the ethical implications of pursuing personal ambitions at the expense of others and the limitations of an individualistic approach to achieving happiness and fulfilment. And true as it may be that Muriel Spark�s novel does not directly address utilitarianism as a philosophical concept, it is possible to analyse Miss Brodie, her actions, her beliefs as well as her impact on her students from a utilitarian perspective since the latter emphasizes the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people. Finally, Ishiguro�s speculative Never Let Me Go presents a dystopian society where clones are created for the sole purpose of providing organ donations to others thus raising further questions about the ethics of sacrificing a few for the well-being of many, as well as the nature of humanity and the value of individual lives. Every single one of these three novels explores utilitarian philosophies of life by looking into the aftermath entailed by the prioritizing of individuals� happiness and pleasure (on a small scale), or of societal well-being (on a large scale). Therein, readers are challenged to reflect upon the complexities and ethical dilemmas inherent in pursuing the greatest good for the greatest number. The end justifies the means can be seen operating in various degrees and in different ways in all three texts, reflecting back the unique contexts and themes of their respective stories. Seen like this, these novels become lenses mediating ethical dilemmas, obliquely criticising societal norms or raising awareness to the consequences of sacrificing individual rights and moral considerations for the sake of societal or personal goals.
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Li, Tianyue. "Charles Dickens’s Reflection on Race and Empire in The Mystery of Edwin Drood." In 7th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2021). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210519.134.

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Khomytska, Iryna, Vasyl Teslyuk, Khrystyna Prysyazhnyk, and Nataliia Hrytsiv. "The Lehmann-Rosenblatt Test Applied for Determination of Statistical Parameters of Charles Dickens's Authorial Style." In 2021 IEEE 16th International Conference on Computer Sciences and Information Technologies (CSIT). IEEE, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/csit52700.2021.9648789.

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