Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies

"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.

ISBN	1403912866	Pages	368
ISBN13	9781403912862 (What's this?)	Volumes	1
Publisher	Palgrave USA	Weight (grammes)	422
Imprint	Palgrave Macmillan	Published in	Gordonsville
Format	Paperback	Series title	Palgrave Advances
Publication date	11 Nov 2005	Height (mm)	216
Library of Congress	2005050044	Width (mm)	138
DEWEY	823.8	Spine width (mm)	19
DEWEY edition	DC22	Academic level	Tertiary education, Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

1	Introduction by John Bowen and Robert L. Patten	1
2	Publishing in parts by Robert L. Patten	11
3	Dickens and the writing of a life by Rosemarie Bodenheimer	48
4	Performing character by Malcolm Andrews	69
5	Dickens and plot by Hilary M. Schor	90
6	Visualizing Dickens by John Sutherland	111
7	From blood to law : the embarrassments of family in Dickens by Helena Michie	131
8	Reforming culture by Catherine Waters	155
9	Dickens's reading public by David Vincent	176
10	Politicized Dickens : the journalism of the 1850s by Joseph W. Childers	198
11	Psychoanalyzing Dickens by Carolyn Dever	216
12	Historicizing Dickens by Catherine Robson	234
13	Dickens and the force of writing by John Bowen	255
	Timeline by Ian Wilkinson	273

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