Dickens, His Parables, and His Reader

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291 Agnus Dei, 30–31, 91, 118 All the Year Round, 3, 200, 247 Anglicanism. See Church of England Anti-Sabbatarianism 7, 151, 166 Arnold, Matthew, 6 Athenæum, 140 Bacon, Francis, 136 Barnaby Rudge, 200 “Bartox Brothers and Co,” 24 “Begging-Letter Writers,” 233 Bentley’s Miscellany, 24 Bentley’s Monthly Review, 140 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 72 Blake, William, 44 Bleak House, and Apocalypse, 120, 125; and “casting the first stone,” 101, 108, 132, 142, 144, 152; and Chancery, 120, 121, 123, 124–26, 157, 162, 164, 236; and determinism, 130; on Dissent, 123, 148, 149–51; double narration of, 121, 123, 128, 129, 135, 136, 146, 149, 150, 152; and Esther as judge, 142–44, 145, 149; Esther and reader, 121–22, 139, 140, 233; Esther as Wisdom, 122, 13942 ; on Evangelicalism, 13, 146–47; on Church of England, 152; on feminism, 82, 123, 140–42, 145–49, 151; and Gospel of Work, 141, 226; and judgment, 120, 123, 124–25, 126, 131, 132, 139, 142–50, 151, 152; and missionaries, 123, 128, 145–47; on “natural” and “unnatural,” 142, 144–45, 146, 147, 148, 150; and New Testament, 120, 121, 123, 130, 132, 145, 150; and the non-judgmental, 131–32, 133–35; and philanthropy, 145–46; and Providence, 135, 244; and reader, 128, 133–34, 139, 140, 143, 147, 161, 249; and self-judgment, 121–31; and social injustice, 127, 128, 130; on urban missions, 146–47, 148, 166; on Wisdom, 136, 140; mentioned, 23, 55, 66, 108 “The Bloomsbury Christening,” 14 Bonaventure, 93, 106 Book of Common Prayer, 19, 24, 184, 190, 248 Bradbury and Evans, 2 Bradbury, William, 15 Broad Church, 155, 171, 244, 249 Brontë, Charlotte, 137 Browne, Hablot K., 90 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 22, 104, 137 Browning, Robert, 6, 66, 137, 138 Bulwer Lytton, Edward, 5 Bunyan, John, and Pilgrim’s Progress, 20, 24, 35–37, 38, 40, 47, 49, 50, 52, 54 Burdett Coutts, Angela, 103, 104, 233 Burnett, Fanny Dickens, 15–16, 17 Burnett, Harry, 23 Burnett, Henry, 15 Calvin, John, 93, 106 Calvinism, 12, 154, 164, 166 Carlyle, Thomas, 6, 127, 141, 197, 200, 209, 225 Catholicism, 8, 11, 12, 136 Cattermole, George, 56 Channing, William Ellery, 12 Chapman and Hall, 2, 6, 200 Chaucer, Geoffrey, 45 Index 292 Index “A Child’s Dream of a Star,” 54, 194 “The Chimes,” 4, 130 Chisholm, Caroline, 145 The Christian Examiner, 25 The Christian Remembrancer, 40, 166 “A Christmas Carol,” 187, 249 “City of London Churches,” 7, 9, 165 Church of England, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 17, 19, 35, 49, 58, 67, 86–87, 97, 126, 127, 142, 148, 150, 151, 152, 155, 166, 192, 215, 244 Collins, Wilkie 201. See also The Frozen Deep Comte, Auguste, 138 Cruickshank, George, 56 Dante Alighieri, 136, 138 Darwin, Charles, 6, 8 David Copperfield, and allegorical characters, 90–91, 92, 105, 113, 119; and “blindness,” 95, 108, 110, 112, 115, 116, 119; on Christian community, 89, 92, 98, 103, 113; on class, 96–97, 98, 109–10, 118; on David as hero, 90, 98, 105, 115, 119; on David as prodigal, 107–12, 114– 19; and the demonic, 95, 115–17; and doubles, 91, 98, 115–16; and Eden, 94, 110, 111–12, 113, 114; on education, 96– 97, 108; and fairy tales, 105, 110, 111–12, 114; and female prodigality, 90, 100–106, 112, 130; on forgiveness, 95, 99, 106; and male prodigality, 89, 92, 94, 95–100, 107–19 passim, 178, 241; and the Old Testament, 93–94, 97–98, 105, 116; and Prodigal Son parable, 89, 90, 92–93, 94, 100, 107, 118; and the reader, 92, 98, 103, 113, 119; and weeping, 88–89, 91, 99, 104–5, 113; mentioned, 20, 160, 229, 250 Davies, R. H., 249 Dickens, Catherine, 22, 42, 61, 148, 174, 192 Dickens, Charles, and America, 2, 16; on Anglicanism, 6, 8, 9,12, 13, 15, 17, 19, 35, 49, 58, 67, 86, 126, 142, 148, 150, 151, 152; and anti-feminism of, 140–52 passim; on baptism, 14–15, 17; 49, 50, 67–68, 238–44; on childhood, 22–24, 50–52, 54–55,186, 189, 194, 198–99; on church attendance, 7- 9, 46, 57, 86, 186, 249; on Dissenters, 6, 8, 10, 39–40, 86, 148, 149–51, 249; on education, 9–10; on faith and works, 134, 226, 240, 243; and his family, 1, 22–23, 41–42, 166; on free will, 13, 31, 130, 169, 198–200...