Article about Dickens's Christmas Carol in prose is one of the disquisitions on classical discoveries that are important for quality aging and good intergenerational relations. It briefly presents ...the author of this immortal literary work and the social context of this book - human insensitivity of the old man, rich Scrooge, during early capitalism that is known for exploitation of children and workers in general Dickens found a very effective way for increasing social justice through Scrooge's thorough transformation into a caring and socially awaken old man. For contemporary gerontology this story is a call to explore possibilities for transformation in old age from seemingly vital persons to an easy, relaxed and serene old people. It is also a call for the creation of modern methods: that would be very helpful for baby boomers to successfully perform this transformation. Dickens's story is still a very good mirror of our conscience. At the end of the article there is an analysis of the possibility for using the Christmas Carol in prose in groups for quality aging.
Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to summarize the effect that the passage of the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) by the US Congress had on audit research. More specifically, the paper compares ...the nature of research about auditing conducted before the Act’s passage to the nature of research about audit regulation that dominates the literature since its passage.
Design/methodology/approach
– The paper builds on an extensive review of the research literature before and after the passage of SOX to suggest and examine potential future research paths that might develop in auditing. The streams of research are linked and organized around four themes: auditing as a competitive process, auditing as a service process, auditing as a production process and auditing as a quality control process.
Findings
– In general, auditing research prior to SOX tended to focus on issues encountered in the practice of auditing with tangential implications for audit regulation. The passage of SOX had the effect of focusing audit research on the nature, costs and benefits of regulation, particularly the components of the law that had the most effect on auditing such as the prohibition against many non-audit services, the establishment of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board as a standard setter that also inspects audit firms, and the introduction of the requirement that a client’s internal control over financial reporting be examined and opined upon as part of an integrated audit. Although this research has increased our understanding of auditing and regulation, the heavy focus on SOX has pushed research about auditing itself to a lesser role. The profession’s, academy’s and regulatory understanding of auditing may benefit from a more balanced approach to auditing as something separate from the regulation of auditing.
Originality/value
– The intent of this paper is to challenge the way researchers think about research questions in auditing. Hopefully, this approach will encourage auditing researchers to look at the audit and audit regulation through a new lens, testing propositions and aspects of auditing that have been overlooked by the dominate focus on audit regulation over the past decade.
Griffiths' "central thesis" is to explore the ways in which "specific modes of literary description – in particular, the comparative strategies that constituted nineteenth-century historical fiction ...– changed how both historians and scientists access the past" (39), and he lays out the aim of his book as an attempt to narrate "the decline of totalizing approaches to history and rise of more dynamic and comparative nineteenth-century modes" (56). Focusing exclusively on In Memoriam, chapter three positions Tennyson as marking a shift from Scott's focus on antiquarianism and human history towards the "central analytical principle of comparative anatomy – the premier biological science of the early nineteenth century" (158) and natural history. Griffith closes his account by returning to the Darwins, showing how, in an era where the sense of obligation to unitary historical narratives had become more attenuated, Charles was enabled to complete his grandfather's work through his capacity to see history as "an extensive web of analogies between past and present, between domestic and natural species – connections made intelligible by natural selection and its narratives of variation, selection, and change" (216).
In spite of the supernatural trappings of Charles Dickens's most famous work, A Christmas Carol, critics from G. K. Chesterton to Edmund Wilson have found its equally famous protagonist, Ebenezer ...Scrooge, to be a real character, more fleshed-out and compelling than many of the characters of Dickens's longer, presumably more “serious” novels. Much of the reaction to A Christmas Carol and its protean anti-hero can be summarized by Stephen Prickett's succinct appraisal in his seminal study, Victorian Fantasy: “The strength of A Christmas Carol lies quite simply in its psychological credibility” (54). Scrooge is a character we can believe in, a character that, as Margaret Atwood suggests, “remains fresh and vital. ‘Scrooge Lives!’ we might write on our T-shirts” (xiii).
Whereas some versions of political economy constructed hunger as a necessary driver of progress, these fictional narratives insisted on hunger as a dangerous, disruptive force and a challenge to ...theories of improvement. Scholl's treatment of food, hunger, and community culminates in a provocative and intriguing- if not entirely convincing-reading of Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market" (1862), in which Scholl takes the side of the goblins, arguing that they "represent the displaced foreigner, seeking a community to belong to" and excluded by Laura and Lizzie, who try to pay the goblins off rather than participate in a shared meal (178). The flexibility and scope of that topic allow her to move through a range of fascinating and related topics, all crucial to the Victorian novel: class dynamics, political economy, community, outsiders, migration, nationhood, social unrest, education, and so on.
While we have long been preoccupied with the cultural effects of the age of steam, a number of distinct studies-such as Gina M. Dorré's Victorian Fiction and the Cult of the Horse (2006), Jonathan H. ...Grossman's Charles Dickens's Networks: Public Transport and the Novel (2012), and Marla Dobson's forthcoming study on the omnibus in Victorian art-have reminded us that the nineteenth century was also the age of the horse. Ruth Livesey's engaging book, Writing the Stage Coach Nation: Locality on the Move in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, takes this material in a new direction by linking horse-drawn public transport to Britain as an imagined community. Dickens's The Pickwick Papers, for its part, is less invested in the specifics of locality than in imagining a nation of more-or-less equals in genial motion, though it also, of course, offers us the Manor House at Dingley Dell as an image of a good-old-days togetherness, a "prosthetic memory" of an idealized recent past (93).
Charles Dickens and his Wife LONG, WILLIAM F.
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...Dickens, Catherine, Carlyle, Thackeray, Tennyson, Jerrold, Rogers, Gavazzi and almost certainly the Doyle family and their London friend "Mr. Safe," were, neither collectively nor singly, present ...in Dublin in February 1852 being sketched there in person by Doyle. John Ball (ODNB; 1818–89), a glaciologist and politician and Henry Doyle's future brother-in-law; Frederick William Burton (1816–1900), a painter; William Nicholas Keogh (ODNB; 1817–78), a judge and politician; James Joseph McCarthy (ODNB; 1817–82), a church architect; Daniel McGettigan (1815–87), a prelate and later Archbishop of Armagh; William Monsell (ODNB; 1812–94), a landowner and politician; Daniel Murray (ODNB; 1768–1852), the Archbishop of Dublin; George Petrie (ODNB; 1790–1866), an antiquary and painter; James Quinn (1819–81), a priest and educationalist and later Bishop of Queensland; John Reynolds (1794–1868), a Member of Parliament for Dublin (1847–52) and Lord Mayor of Dublin during 1850; James Henthorn Todd (ODNB; 1805–69), a biblical scholar; Henry William Wilberforce (ODNB; 1807–73), a son of William Wilberforce, a Catholic convert, the Secretary of the Catholic Defence Association and a newspaper proprietor. 10. ...Henry was a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy, but not of the Royal Academy. 15. Henry's sketches at Carbondale bear a close resemblance in style to his brother Richard's portraits of Thackeray, M. J. Higgins and Henry Reeve and of John Forster and Dickens in the British Museum, which, like Henry's sketches, feature quickly sketched principals surrounded by "practise" drawings of heads. (http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?assetId=314833001&objectId=740014&partId=1 and http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?assetId=314677001&objectId=739974&partId=1 respectively); accessed 21 July 2016.
Deduce from expressions used on one occasion Mr. Pickwick's maximum of speed. b Give, approximately, the height of Mr. Dubbley; and, accurately, the Christian names of Mr. Grummer, Mrs. Raddle, and ...the fat Boy; also the name of the Zephyr. c Deduce from a remark of Mr. Weller, junior, the price per mile of cabs at the period.2 Philip Collins has remarked that, when Calverley assembled his Paper, "Pickwick was, clearly, already a cult-book: and swopping arcane Dickens tags was something of an undergraduate fashion" (39). Among the literary productions which are reviewed in these columns works of imagination form a considerable item, and this of necessity, since they are become as much a part of the common stock of society and the common medley of conversation as the reports of the law courts ... and the notices of ... births, deaths, and marriages. ... The reviewer thus brings to the fore a point made only implicitly by the pamphlet's authors: its mock promotion of popular fiction as a subject worthy of serious study is a comment (albeit one presented gently and good-naturedly) on the influence which the attitude of mind that may be loosely labelled as "utilitarianism," was, during the 1830s, starting to exert on education.8 We do not know that Dickens himself ever saw the Student's Guide, but, as an attentive reader of the Times, he is likely to have seen its review. The Manx Sun 20 January 1855, 4 contained the note "Amidst the distressing details of the horrors of war and disasters by sea and land with which the daily press is laden, it is delightful and refreshing-like sic an oasis in the desert to find ... a recent talented publication, replete with erudition, wit and humour, the joint production of our young distinguished townsman, Mr. T. E. Brown, and a fellow Oxonian of Oriel College, entitled "The Student's Guide to the School of Literae Fictitiae.
