Jeremy Tambling is a writer and critic working on English and European literature and critical theory. He is formerly Professor of Literature at Manchester University, UK and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong.

• Introduction: ‘Of Imagination All Compact': Shakespeare, Fuseli, Blake, Dickens PART 1: ON THE FAIRIES Chapter 1. Dickens, Fuseli, and Fairies Chapter 2. Queen Mab: Old Women and Children in Dickens and Blake PART 2: 'THE STORY OF THE NIGHT' Chapter 3. The East Wind in the Christmas Books, and Bleak House, and Hamlet Chapter 4. Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and ‘Two Dear Friends’ in David Copperfield. PART 3: 'FOUL WEATHER' Chapter 5. Death on a Pale Horse: The Apocalypse in Bleak House Chapter 6. Mudfog Chapter 7. Who is Magwitch?: Great Expectations PART 4: 'A TEMPEST, BIRTH, AND DEATH' Chapter 8. The Islands of Little Dorrit Chapter 9. Romance, Death, Resurrection and a Conclusion: Our Mutual Friend and The Mystery of Edwin Drood