Charles Dickens: A December Vision — His Social Journalism (ed. Neil Philip & Victor Neuburg)
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'Charles Dickens: A December Vision: His Social Journalism', edited by Neil Philip and Victor Neuburg, is a selection of Dickens’s non-fiction writing on the social conditions and public issues of Victorian Britain. The volume brings together journalism and other prose in which Dickens addresses poverty, education, prisons, working conditions, public health and the treatment of disadvantaged people. Rather than presenting Dickens primarily as a novelist, the collection highlights his role as a journalist and social commentator, showing his characteristic concern with inequality and institutional shortcomings. It provides an accessible introduction to the social and political subjects that informed much of Dickens’s fiction and public life.
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