List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Notes on references and editions
List of abbreviations
Cbronology
Preface
JOHN O．JORDAN
1 The life and times of Charles Dickens
GRAHAME SMITH
2 Form Sketcbes to Nickleby
ROBERT L．PATTEN
3 The middle novels:Cbuzzlewit，Dombey，and Copperfield
KATE FLNT
4 Moments of decision in Bleak House
J．HILLIS MILLER
5 Novels of the 185os:Hard Times，Little Dorrit，and A tale of Two Citties
HILARY SCHOR
6 The late novels:Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend
BRIAN CHEADLE
7 Fictions of childhood
ROBERT NEWSOM
8 Fictions of the city
MURRAY BAUMGARTEN
9 Gender，family，and domestic ideology
CATHERINE WATERS
10 Dickens and language
GARRETT STEWART
11 Dickens and the form of the novel
NICOLA BRADBURY
12 Dickens and illustration
RICHARD L．STEIN
13 Dickens and theatre
JOHN GLAVIN
14 Dickens and film
JOSS MARSH
Selected bibliograpby
Index
