The Oxford handbook of Charles Dickens / edited by John Jordan, Robert L. Patten, and Catherine Waters.

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Book
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English
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First edition
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
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1 online resource : illustrations.

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Oxford handbooks online. [More in this series]
Summary note
The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens is a comprehensive and up-to-date collection of essays on Dickens's life and works. It includes original articles on all of Dickens's writing and new considerations of his contexts, from the social, political, and economic to the scientific, commercial, and religious. Contributors speak in new ways about his depictions of families, the environmental degradation and improvements of the industrial age, the law, charity, and communications. His treatment of gender, his mastery of prose in all its varieties and genres, and his range of affects and dramatization all come under stimulating reconsideration. And his understanding of British history, of empire and colonization, of his own nation and foreign ones, and of selfhood and otherness, like all the other topics, is explained in terms easy to comprehend and profoundly relevant to global modernity.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 4, 2018).
Contents
  • Biographical Dickens / Rosemarie Bodenheimer
  • Barnaby Rudge and the Jesuit Menace / Mark Eslick
  • Martin Chuzzlewit / Logan Delano Browning
  • Dombey and Son and the Question of Reproduction / Michal P. Ginsburg
  • Christmas Books and Stories / Ruth Glancy
  • David Copperfield / Philip Davis
  • Bleak House / Kate Flint
  • Hard Times for Our Times / Grahame Smith
  • Little Dorrit / Francesca Orestano
  • A Tale of Two Cities / Nathalie Vanfasse
  • Great Expectations / Mary Hammond
  • Dickens's Lifetime Reading / Leon Litvak
  • Our Mutual Friend / Ian Duncan
  • The Mystery of Edwin Drood / Peter Orford
  • 'Milestones on the Dover Road': Dickens and Travel / Michael Hollington
  • Journalism and Correspondence / Hazel Mackenzie
  • Charles Dickens and the 'Dark Corners' of Children's Literature / Molly Clark Hillard
  • The Trouble with Angels: Dickens, Gender, and Sexuality / James Eli Adams
  • Domesticity and Queer Theory / Holly Furneaux
  • Psychology, Psychiatry, Mesmerism, Dreams, Insanity, and Psychoanalytic Criticism / Tyson Stolte
  • Dickens and Astronomy, Biology, and Geology / Jonathan Smith
  • Social Reform / David Michael Vincent
  • Dickens as Professional Author / John Bowen
  • Dickens, Industry, and Technology / Richard Menke
  • Material Culture / Claire Wood
  • Dickens and Affect / Wendy Parkins
  • History and Change: Dickens and the Past / David Paroissien
  • Class and its Distinctions / Chris Vanden Bossche
  • Race, Imperialism, Colonialism, Post-Colonialism, and Cosmopolitanism / James Buzard
  • Dickens, Political Economy, and Money / Ayse ðCelikkol
  • Dickens and Animal Studies / Jennifer McDonell
  • Dickens and the Environment / Allen MacDuffie
  • Dickens as a Public Figure / Tony Williams
  • Dickens and Religion / Jennifer Gribble
  • Drinking in Dickens / Helena Michie
  • Cognitive Dickens / Chip Badley, Kay Young
  • Dickens's Language / Daniel Tyler
  • Genres: Auctor Ludens, or Dickens at Play / Robert Tracy
  • Dickens and the Theatre / John Glavin
  • Dickens' Visual Mediations / Helen Groth
  • Dickens's World System: Globalized Modernity as Combined and Uneven Development / Paul Young
  • Dickens's Global Circulation / Regenia Gagnier
  • Adopting and Adapting Dickens Since 1870: Stage, Film, Radio, Television / Sharon Aronofsky Weltman
  • Dickens's Early Sketches / Paul Schlicke
  • Adopting and Adapting Dickens in the Internet Age / Juliet John
  • Introduction / John Jordan, Robert L. Patten, Catherine Waters
  • Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Life of Writing / Jeremy Tambling
  • Oliver Twist: Urban Aesthetics and the Homeless Child / Galia Benziman
  • Nicholas Nickleby: Equity vs. Law / Jon Varese
  • The Old Curiosity Shop and Master Humphrey's Clock / Sarah Winter.
Other title(s)
  • Handbook of Charles Dickens
  • Charles Dickens
ISBN
  • 9780191061127
  • 0191061123
  • 9780191061110
  • 0191061115
  • 9780191866036
  • 0191866032
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