From the Book - Updated ed.
The great popularity / G.K. Chesterton
Dickens's radicalism, plausibility, and his image of the working man / George Orwell
Introduction to Great expectations / George Bernard Shaw
Little Dorrit / Lionel Trilling
The heroes and heroines of Dickens / Angus Wilson
Mr. Micawber and the redefinition of experience / William Oddie
Dickens and violence / John Carey
Discipline in different voices : bureaucracy, police, family, and Bleak house / D.A. Miller
Dickens and Darwin / George Levine
Our mutual friend : the taught self / Pam Morris
Dickens and language / Garrett Stewart
Charles Dickens, syndrome spotter : a review of some morbid observations / John Cosnett.
Introduction / Harold Bloom
Biography of Charles Dickens / Marie Tennent Shephard
On the works of Charles Dickens / Mei Chin
The limitations of Dickens / Henry James
On the alleged optimism of Dickens / G.K. Chesterton
Chracterization / George Gissing
The dark world of Oliver Twist / J. Hillis Miller
Dickens and the comedy of humors / Northrop Frye
The demons of history in Dickens's Tale / Robert Alter
The creation of consciousness and Dickens's vision of the city / Raymond Williams
Language into structure : Pickwick revisited / Steven Marcus
A Christmas carol : "giving nursery tales a higher form" / Harry Stone
Plot and the point of reversal / Robert L. Caserio
Language engenders : David Copperfield and Great expectations / Dianne F. Sadoff
Discipline in different voices : bureaucracy, police, family, and Bleak house / D.A. Miller
Monsters of metonymy : Hard times and knowing the working class / Stephen J. Spector.
Homophobia, misogyny, and capital : the example of Our mutual friend / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Dickens's Great expectations : the motive for moral masochism / Shuli Barzilai
The Dickensian "no thoroughfare" / Ned Lukacher
Getting and having : some versions of possession in Little Dorrit / Jeff Nunokawa.
