Dickens, Religion and Society, 1st ed. 2016

Dickens, Religion and Society examines the centrality of Dickens's religious attitudes to the social criticism he is famous for, shedding new light in the process on such matters as the presentation of Fagin as a villainous Jew, the hostile portrayal of trade unions in Hard Times and Dickens's sentimentality.

Robert Butterworth was educated at Farnworth Grammar School and the University of Leeds, and works as a lecturer in North West England. In addition to numerous articles about Dickens, he has published on other Victorian writers including Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Thomas Hood and George Gissing.