A companion to Charles Dickens
By: edited by David Paroissien.
Contributors: Paroissien, David.
Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture -- 51
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.; Wiley-Interscience; Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9781405130974
Subjects: Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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 18th-century legacy / D. 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 Drew; title: Dickens and gender / Natalie McKnight; title: Dickens and technology / Trey Philpotts; title: Dickens and America (1842) / Nancy Aycock Metz; title: Dickens, the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, and the Jamaican Rebellion / Leslie. G. Mitchell; title: Dickens and the uses of history / John Gardiner; title: Dickens as a Christian / 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 / Gillian Ballinger; title: Barnaby Rudge / John 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 Humphreys; title: Little Dorrit / Philip Davis; title: A tale of two cities / Paul Davis; title: Great expectations / Andrew L. 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 Pikett; title: Casting long shadows / John O. Jordan.