The companion to Oliver Twist
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書誌事項
The companion to Oliver Twist
(The Dickens companions / general editor Susan Shatto ; associate editor Michael Cotsell, 5)
Edinburgh University Press, c1992
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  鳥取
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  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
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  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
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  韓国
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注記
Bibliography: p. 312-323
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
"Oliver Twist" (1837-9), Dickens' first social novel, introduced its original readers to the shadowy world of London's juvenile gangs, stealing for master criminals in return for food, accommodation, drink and promiscuous sex. Equally engaging were the novel's polemical comments on England's treatment of the poor, the need for order in the counties surrounding London and the importance of public health in the metropolis. David Pariossien's "Companion" recreates these contexts for the modern reader. Dickens' objections to legislation in 1834 which attempted to reform and revise England's Poor Laws dating from the 16th century are related to several concerns: his distrust of "theories" of human nature proposed by the supporters of Jeremy Bentham, his belief that people should be tempted to virtue rather than bullied and threatened, and his deeply felt repulsion for the specific provisions of the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834.
Drawing on government reports of the time and a range of sources, Pariossien also describes how the urban poor buried their dead; the repulsive conditions of some of London's worst slums like Field Lane and Jacob's Island; the vivid cant of thieves' slang and the brutal world of adolescent crime, drink, gambling and prostitution. Literary allusions and the suggested originals of characters are identified and, building a case on textual evidence, Pariossien establishes the site of Oliver's birthplace and the infamous workhouse in which he asked for more. The "Companion" shows the extraordinary extent to which Dickens drew on the actual world around him for his first sustained criticism of English society.
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