Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the study of one of the most important Victorian novelists. Its editors, Robert L. Patten and John Bowen, are leading authorities on Dickens and the international team of contributors they have assembled contains some of the most exciting critics of nineteenth-century fiction writing today. The book covers the whole range of Dickens's writing and criticism about it, including biographical, theoretical and historical approaches. It is based on up-to-the-minute research and written in a lively and engaging way, and will be essential reading for all students and scholars of this canonical writer.

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Information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2005

ISBN

9780230524200

Topic

Literature

Subtopic

European Literary Criticism

Index

Literature

Cover
Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
1 Introduction
2 Publishing in parts
3 Dickens and the writing of a life
4 Performing character
5 Dickens and plot
6 Visualizing dickens
7 From blood to law: the embarrassments of family in dickens
8 Reforming culture
9 Dickens's reading public
10 Politicized dickens: the journalism of the 1850s
11 Psychoanalyzing dickens
12 Historicizing dickens
13 Dickens and the force of writing
Timeline
Selected bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index