Dickens studies annual
Subtitle: essays on Victorian fiction : Volume 44
By: edited by Stanley Friedman, Edward Guiliano, Anne Humpherys, Natalie McKnight, and Michael Timko
Publisher: AMS Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 497
ISBN-13: 9780404189440
Subjects: Bleak House (Dickens, Charles); David Copperfield (Dickens, Charles); Hard times (Dickens, Charles); Middlemarch (Eliot, George); Old curiosity shop (Dickens, Charles); Oliver Twist (Dickens, Charles); Tale of two cities (Dickens, Charles); Vanity fair (Thackeray, William Makepeace)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. The Infrastructural Uncanny: Oliver Twist in the Suburbs and Slums / Justin Eichenlaub; title: 2. "No Certain Roof but the Coffin Lid": The Melodramatic Body and the Semiotics of Syphilis in Oliver Twist / Erin Wilson; title: 3. Making Piracy Pay: Fagin and Contested Authorship in Victorian Print Culture / Monica F. Cohen; title: 4. Reversing Domestication in Dickens: Forging Masculine and Domestic Types through the Cross-Species / Kattie M. Basnett; title: 5. Not Too Cheery: Dickens's Critique of Capital in Nicholas Nickleby / Timothy Gilmore; title: 6. Drowning in the Fog: The Significance of Quilp's Death in The Old Curiosity Shop / Christine L. Corton; title: 7. The Wax Girl: Molding Little Nell in The Old Curiosity Shop / John B. Lamb; title: 8. Dora Spenlow, Female Communities, and Female Narrative in Charles Dickens's David Copperfield and George Eliot's Middlemarch / Maria Ioannou; title: 9. Vibrations in the Memory: Bleak House's Response to Illustrations of Becky in Vanity Fair / Deborah A. Thomas; title: 10. When Fairy Godmothers Are Men: Dickens's Gendered Use of Fairy Tales as a Form of Narrative Control in Bleak House / Melissa A. Smith; title: 11. An Old Dog Enters the Fray; or, Reading Hard Times as an Industrial Novel / Priti Joshi; title: 12. Book-Snatcher&#x200A;/&#x200A;Body-Snatcher: Adaptation, Resurrection, and A Tale of Two Cities / Lauren Ellis Holm; title: 13. Bradley Headstone's Bad Example of Self-Help: Dickens and the Problem with Ambition / Rebecca Richardson; title: 14. The Storm at the Lighthouse by Wilkie Collins, with an Introduction, Textual Notes, and Appendix / Robert C. Hanna; title: 15. Recent Dickens Studies: 2011 / Elizabeth Bridgham.