Includes bibliographical references (pages [155]-162) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Dickens, work, and the Victorians -- Work and the shaping of personality -- Gendering the laboring body -- Dickens and the professions -- Dickens and domestic management -- Dickens's idle men -- Epilogue: Occupation, disguise, and personality in Dickens's late novels.
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