Contains a collection of critical commentaries on the works of Charles Dickens; and includes an introduction by Harold Bloom, chronology of the life of Dickens, and notes on the various contributors.
General Note
Includes index.
Content Note
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.