| Synopsis: |
Includes book-length critical edition of Dickens's juvenilia; Paul Schacht, In Pursuit of Pickwick's Hat: Dickens and the Epistemology of Utilitarianism; Natalie McKnight, The Erotics of Barnaby Rudge; Karen Bourrier, Reading Laura Bridgman: Literacy and Disability in Dickens's American Notes; Michael Klotz, Dombey and Son and the 'Parlour on Wheels'; John Kofron, Dickens, Collins, and the Influence of the Arctic; Jan Alber, Darkness, Light, and Various Shades of Gray: The Prison and the Outside World in Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities; Philip V. Allingham, The Illustrations for Great Expectations in Harper's Weekly (1860-1861) and in the Illustrated Library Edition (1862) - 'Reading by the Light of Illustration'; Victoria Ford Smith, Dolls and Imaginative Agency in Bradford, Pardoe, and Dickens; Robert Tracy, 'Opium is the true hero of the tale': De Quincey, Dickens, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood; Stephanie Pena-Sy, Intoxication, Provocation, and Derangement: Interrogating the Nature of Criminal Responsibility in The Mystery of Edwin Drood; Robert C. Hanna, Before Boz: The Juvenilia and Early Writings of Charles Dickens, 1820-1833; Natalie McKnight, Recent Dickens Studies - 2007; Index. |