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.
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.
Biography of Charles Dickens --
[pt. 1]. Plot summary of Great expectations --
List of characters in Great expectations --
Critical views on Great expectations: --
Sylvére Monod on the morality of the novel --
Julian Moynahan on Pip as Dickens's most complex hero --
Harry Stone on fairy-tale aspects of the novel --
H.M. Daleski on the use of the first person in the novel --
A.E. Dyson on Magwitch --
Q.D. Leavis on guilt and class in the novel --
John Lucas on Pip as character and Pip as narrator --
Pearl Chesler Solomon on Dickens and his father --
Murray Baumgarten on writing and speech in the novel --
Thomas Loe on the Gothic elements in the novel --
[pt. 2]. Plot summary of Bleak House --
List of characters in Bleak House --
Critical views on Bleak House: --
J. Hillis Miller on the theme of interpretation in the novel --
Virginia Blain on Esther's "Sexual Taint" --
Christine Van Boheemen-Saaf on the novel as Victorian family romance --
Harold Bloom on the novel as canonical --
Laura Fasick on the diseased body in the novel --
[pt. 3]. Plot summary of David Copperfield --
List of characters in David Copperfield --
Critical views on David Copperfield: --
Charles Dickens on the novel --
Mowbray Morris on Dickens's fancy --
William Samuel Lilly on the sober veracity of the novel --
Algernon Charles Swinburne on the novel as masterpiece --
Stanley Friedman on the model for Uriah Heep --
[pt.3]. Plot summary of A tale of two cities --
List of characters in A tale of two cities --
Critical views on A tale of two cities: John Gross on Carton and Darnay --
Earle Davis on Carlyle's influence on Dickens --
Robert Alter on violence in the novel --
Edwin M. Eigner on Darney as a revolutionary hero --
J.M. Rignall on the contradictory nature of the novel --
Ruth Glancy on Lucy Manette --
Tom Lloyd on Madame Defarge.
