Sixteen scholars from across the globe come together in Charles Dickens as an Agent of Change to show how Dickens was (and still is) the consummate change agent

Studying works by Charles Kingsley, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Charles Dickens, this volume illustrates how the Victorians used medicine and literature to develop a

We read the book, and the book is reading us. In his later novels, Charles Dickens uses the interaction between characters and their audiences within the fictio

Charles Dickens, a man so representative of his age as to have become considered synonymous with it, demands to be read in context. This book illuminates the wo

This book presents critiques about African American authors and poets, as well as a composer, who have contributed towards social change, namely Ralph Ellison,