Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies

MALCOLM ANDREWS University of Kent, UKROSEMARIE BODENHEIMER Boston College, USAJOSEPH CHILDERS University of California, Riverside, USACAROLYN DEVER Vanderbilt University, USAHELENA MICHIE Rice University, USACATHERINE ROBSON University of California, Davis, USAHILARY M. SCHOR University of Southern California, USAJOHN SUTHERLAND University College London, UKDAVID VINCENT Open University, UK and visiting fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford, UKCATHERINE WATERS University of New England, AustraliaIAN WILKINSON Keele University, UK

'Bob Patten and John Bowen's collection is a state-of-the art guide to Dickens studies. The editors have assembled a distinguished team of contributors, who clearly and succinctly set forth illuminating perspectives on crucial issues of modern scholarship. Wide-ranging, detailed, and remarkably coherent, it is the best single volume of essays since George Ford and Lauriat Lane's classic The Dickens Critics first appeared nearly half a century ago, and a must for every serious student of Dickens.' - Paul Schlicke, President of the International Dickens Fellowship and Senior Lecturer in English, University of Aberdeen, UK '[A] volume of signal importance...a model of its kind' - Nicola Bradbury, The Dickensian

• List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction; J.Bowen& R.L.Patten Publishing in Parts; R.L.Patten Dickens and the Writing of a Life; R.Bodenheimer Performing Character; M.Andrews Dickens and Plot; H.M.Schor Visualizing Dickens; J.Sutherland From Blood to Law: the Embarrassments of Family in Dickens; H.Michie Reforming Culture; C.Waters Dickens's Reading Public; D.Vincent Politicized Dickens: The Journalism of the 1850s; J.Childers Psychoanalyzing Dickens; C.Dever Historicising Dickens; C.Robson Dickens and the Force of Writing; J.Bowen Timeline; I.Wilkinson Bibliography Index