A companion to Charles Dickens
By: edited by David Paroissien
Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture -- 51
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; Malden, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 515
ISBN-13: 9780470657942
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Handbooks, manuals
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A sketch of the life  -- Michael Allen; title: Dickens's use of the autobiographical fragment  -- Nicola Bradbury; title: "Faithfully yours, Charles Dickens" : the epistolary art of the inimitable  -- David Paroissien; title: Three major biographies  -- Catherine Peters; title: The eighteenth-century legacy  -- Monika Fludernik; title: Dickens and the gothic  -- Robert Mighall; title: Illustrations  -- Malcolm Andrews; title: The language of Dickens  -- Patricia Ingham; title: The novels and popular culture  -- Juliet John; title: Dickens as a reformer  -- Hugh Cunningham; title: Dickens's evolution as a journalist  -- John M.L. Drew; title: Dickens and gender  -- Natalie McKnight; title: Dickens and technology  -- Trey Philpotts; title: Dickens and America (1842)  -- Nancy Aycock Metz; title: Dickens and government ineptitude abroad, 1854-1865  -- Leslie Mitchell; title: Dickens and the uses of history  -- John Gardiner; title: Dickens and Christianity  -- Valentine Cunningham; title: Dickens and the law  -- Jan-Melissa Schramm; title: The Pickwick papers  -- David Parker; title: Oliver Twist  -- Brian Cheadle; title: Nicholas Nickleby  -- Stanley Friedman; title: The old curiosity shop  -- Gill Ballinger; title: Barnaby Rudge  -- Jon Mee; title: Martin Chuzzlewit  -- Goldie Morgentaler; title: Dombey and Son  -- Brigid Lowe; title: David Copperfield  -- Gareth Cordery; title: Bleak house  -- Robert Tracy; title: Hard times  -- Anne Humpherys; title: Little Dorrit  -- Philip Davis; title: A tale of two cities  -- Paul Davis; title: Great expectations  -- Andrew Sanders; title: Our mutual friend  -- Leon Litvack; title: The mystery of Edwin Drood  -- Simon J. James; title: Dickens and the literary culture of the period  -- Michael Hollington; title: Dickens and criticism  -- Lyn Pykett; title: Postcolonial Dickens -- John O. Jordan.