The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens

Robert L. Patten writes primarily about Victorian literature, graphic arts, and print culture. He has co-edited volumes of essays on Dickens with John O. Jordan (Literature in the Marketplace, Cambridge, 1995) and John Bowen (Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies, Palgrave, 2006). His books on Dickens include Charles Dickens and His Publishers (Oxford, 1978; 2nd edn. enlarged, 2017) and the Colby prize winning Charles Dickens and "Boz": The Birth of the Industrial-Age Author, Cambridge, 2012). His two-volume biography, George Cruikshank's Life, Times, and Art (Rutgers, 1992, 1996) was named the best biography of the 1990s by the Guardian. And for the Ashgate Library of Essays on Charles Dickens, a 6-volume series edited by Catherine Waters, he edited the volume on Dickens and Victorian Print Culture (2012).John O. Jordan is Research Professor of Literature and Director of the Dickens Project at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Supposing Bleak House (U if Virginia Press, 2011). He edited The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens (2001) and has co-edited several essay collections on Victorian Literature and on Dickens, most recently Global Dickens (Ashgate 2012).Catherine Waters is Professor of Victorian Literature and Print Culture at the University of Kent. She is the author of Dickens and the Politics of the Family (Cambridge UP 1997) and Commodity Culture in Dickens's Household Words: The Social Life of Goods (Ashgate 2008). She is series editor of the 6-volume collection, A Library of Essays on Charles Dickens (Ashgate 2012) and has co-edited several essay collections devoted to Dickens, the most recent being Dickens and the Imagined Child, co-edited with Peter Merchant (Ashgate 2015). She is a member of the editorial advisory board of the Dickens Journals Online project and a vice-president of the Canterbury branch of the Dickens Fellowship.

This will be a valuable resource for all Dickens readers, and it will complement any reading of Dickens's prose.

• Time Line Dickens Family Tree Introduction Part I: Personal and Professional Life 1: Rosemarie Bodenheimer: Biographical Dickens 2: Leon Litvack: Dickens's Lifetime Reading 3: John Bowen: Dickens as Professional Author 4: Tony Williams: Dickens as a Public Figure Part II. The Works 5: Paul Schlicke: Dickens's Early Sketches 6: Jeremy Tambling: Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Life of Writing 7: Galia Benziman: Oliver Twist: Urban Aesthetics and the Homeless Child 8: Jon Varese: Nicholas Nickleby: Equity vs. Law 9: Sarah Winter: 6IThe Old Curiosity Shop and Master Humphrey's Clock 10: Mark Eslick: Barnaby Rudge and the Jesuit Menace 11: Logan Delano Browning: Martin Chuzzlewit 12: Michal P. Ginsburg: Dombey and Son and the Question of Reproduction 13: Ruth Glancy: Christmas Books and Stories 14: Philip Davis: David Copperfield 15: Kate Flint: Bleak House 16: Grahame Smith: Hard Times for Our Times 17: Francesca Orestano: Little Dorrit 18: Nathalie Vanfasse: A Tale of Two Cities 19: Mary Hammond: Great Expectations 20: Ian Duncan: Our Mutual Friend 21: Peter Orford: The Mystery of Edwin Drood 22: Michael Hollington: 'Milestones on the Dover Road': Dickens and Travel 23: Hazel Mackenzie: Journalism and Correspondence 24: Molly Clark Hillard: Charles Dickens and the 'Dark Corners' of Children's Literature Part III: The Socio-Historical Contexts 25: James Eli Adams: The Trouble with Angels: Dickens, Gender, and Sexuality 26: Holly Furneaux: Domesticity and Queer Theory 27: Tyson Stolte: Psychology, Psychiatry, Mesmerism, Dreams, Insanity, and Psychoanalytic Criticism 28: Jonathan Smith: Dickens and Astronomy, Biology, and Geology 29: David Vincent: Social Reform 30: Richard Menke: Dickens, Industry, and Technology 31: Claire Wood: Material Culture 32: Wendy Parkins: Dickens and Affect 33: David Paroissien: History and Change: Dickens and the Past 34: Chris Vanden Bossche: Class and its Distinctions 35: James Buzard: Race, Imperialism, Colonialism, Post-Colonialism, and Cosmopolitanism 36: Ayse Çelikkol: Dickens, Political Economy, and Money 37: Jennifer McDonell: Dickens and Animal Studies 38: Allen MacDuffie: Dickens and the Environment 39: Jennifer Gribble: Dickens and Religion 40: Helena Michie: Drinking in Dickens 41: Chip Badley and Kay Young: Cognitive Dickens Part IV: The Literary and Cultural Contexts 42: Daniel Tyler: Dickens's Language 43: Robert Tracy: Genres: Auctor Ludens, or Dickens at Play 44: John Glavin: Dickens and the Theatre 45: Helen Groth: Dickens' Visual Mediations Part V: Dickens Re-Visioned 46: Paul Young: Dickens's World System: Globalized Modernity as Combined and Uneven Development 47: Regenia Gagnier: Dickens's Global Circulation 48: Sharon Aronofsky Weltman: Adopting and Adapting Dickens Since 1870: Stage, Film, Radio, Television 49: Juliet John: Adopting and Adapting Dickens in the Internet Age