• 1. Introduction: the making and breaking of the family; 2. Fractured families in the early novels: Oliver Twist and Dombey and Son; 3, Dickens, Christmas and the family; 4. Little Dorrit; 5. A Tale of Two Cities; 6. Great Expectations; 7. Our Mutual Friend; Postscript; Select bibliography.

'… let me begin by asserting simply that Catherine Walter's Dickens and the Politics of the Family is a very good book, certainly among the best on Dickens to be published in the past few years.' Dickens Quarterly

• 1. Introduction: the making and breaking of the family; 2. Fractured families in the early novels: Oliver Twist and Dombey and Son; 3, Dickens, Christmas and the family; 4. Little Dorrit; 5. A Tale of Two Cities; 6. Great Expectations; 7. Our Mutual Friend; Postscript; Select bibliography.

'… let me begin by asserting simply that Catherine Walter's Dickens and the Politics of the Family is a very good book, certainly among the best on Dickens to be published in the past few years.' Dickens Quarterly

• 1. Introduction: the making and breaking of the family; 2. Fractured families in the early novels: Oliver Twist and Dombey and Son; 3, Dickens, Christmas and the family; 4. Little Dorrit; 5. A Tale of Two Cities; 6. Great Expectations; 7. Our Mutual Friend; Postscript; Select bibliography.

'… let me begin by asserting simply that Catherine Walter's Dickens and the Politics of the Family is a very good book, certainly among the best on Dickens to be published in the past few years.' Dickens Quarterly