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Книга Oliver Twist Gabriel W. Campbell

Oliver Twist

Criminality, Innocence, and the Failure of Institutions

Автор: Gabriel W. Campbell
Език: Английски език
Корици: С меки корици
Издател: Colloquium
Наличност: Очаква се зареждане
Издание 10. 07. 2026
16.25 € 31.78 лв
From its first serialized appearance in Bentley's Miscellany between 1837 and 1839, Oliver Twist has...

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Автор
Gabriel W. Campbell
Език
Английски език
Корици
Книга - С меки корици
Издадена
2026
страници
142
EAN
9798235619746
Enbook ID
53220980
Издател
Colloquium
Теглоt
174
Размери
140 x 216 x 8

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From its first serialized appearance in Bentley's Miscellany between 1837 and 1839, Oliver Twist has occupied a singular place in the Victorian imagination. It is at once a melodrama of urban criminality, a sentimental tale of endangered innocence, and a scathing indictment of the institutions charged with managing poverty in nineteenth‑century Britain. The novel's enduring power lies in the way these strands intertwine: criminality is not merely a social problem but a manufactured condition; innocence is not simply a moral state but a fragile construct threatened by systemic neglect; and institutions-whether the workhouse, the parish, the courts, or the police-fail not because of isolated incompetence but because they are built upon ideological foundations that privilege order over compassion and property over people. This book begins from the premise that Dickens's narrative is not simply a story about a boy who escapes the underworld but a sustained meditation on how societies create the very criminality they claim to suppress. In tracing Oliver's journey from the workhouse to the criminal gang and finally to the sanctuary of middle‑class domesticity, Dickens exposes the mechanisms through which Victorian England defined, produced, and punished deviance.