Dickens's social concern has always been recognized as important to his fiction, but this is the first study to focus specifically upon the representation of cl

The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens is a comprehensive and up-to-date collection on Dickens's life and works. It includes original chapters on all of Dickens

Political Economy and the Novel: A Literary History of ‘Homo Economicus’ provides a transhistorical account of homo economicus (economic man), demonstrating

This volume places Dickens at the centre of a dynamic and expanding Victorian print world and tells the story of his career against a background of options avai

This stimulating study takes a fresh look at two of Dickens' most widely-studied texts. Part I uses carefully selected short extracts for close textual analysis