The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens

Robert L. Patten writes primarily about Victorian literature, graphic arts, and print culture. He has co-edited volumes of essays on Dickens with John O. Jordan (Literature in the Marketplace, Cambridge, 1995) and John Bowen (Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies, Palgrave, 2006). His books on Dickens include Charles Dickens and His Publishers (Oxford, 1978; 2nd edn. enlarged, 2017) and the Colby prize winning Charles Dickens and "Boz": The Birth of the Industrial-Age Author, Cambridge, 2012). His two-volume biography, George Cruikshank's Life, Times, and Art (Rutgers, 1992, 1996) was named the best biography of the 1990s by the Guardian. And for the Ashgate Library of Essays on Charles Dickens, a 6-volume series edited by Catherine Waters, he edited the volume on Dickens and Victorian Print Culture (2012).John O. Jordan is Research Professor of Literature and Director of the Dickens Project at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Supposing Bleak House (U if Virginia Press, 2011). He edited The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens (2001) and has co-edited several essay collections on Victorian Literature and on Dickens, most recently Global Dickens (Ashgate 2012).Catherine Waters is Professor of Victorian Literature and Print Culture at the University of Kent. She is the author of Dickens and the Politics of the Family (Cambridge UP 1997) and Commodity Culture in Dickens's Household Words: The Social Life of Goods (Ashgate 2008). She is series editor of the 6-volume collection, A Library of Essays on Charles Dickens (Ashgate 2012) and has co-edited several essay collections devoted to Dickens, the most recent being Dickens and the Imagined Child, co-edited with Peter Merchant (Ashgate 2015). She is a member of the editorial advisory board of the Dickens Journals Online project and a vice-president of the Canterbury branch of the Dickens Fellowship.

• Time LineDickens Family TreeIntroductionPart I: Personal and Professional Life1: Rosemarie Bodenheimer: Biographical Dickens2: Leon Litvack: Dickens's Lifetime Reading3: John Bowen: Dickens as Professional Author4: Tony Williams: Dickens as a Public FigurePart II. The Works5: Paul Schlicke: Dickens's Early Sketches6: Jeremy Tambling: Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Life of Writing7: Galia Benziman: Oliver Twist: Urban Aesthetics and the Homeless Child8: Jon Varese: Nicholas Nickleby: Equity vs. Law9: Sarah Winter: 6IThe Old Curiosity Shop and Master Humphrey's Clock10: Mark Eslick: Barnaby Rudge and the Jesuit Menace11: Logan Delano Browning: Martin Chuzzlewit12: Michal P. Ginsburg: Dombey and Son and the Question of Reproduction13: Ruth Glancy: Christmas Books and Stories14: Philip Davis: David Copperfield15: Kate Flint: Bleak House16: Grahame Smith: Hard Times for Our Times17: Francesca Orestano: Little Dorrit18: Nathalie Vanfasse: A Tale of Two Cities19: Mary Hammond: Great Expectations20: Ian Duncan: Our Mutual Friend21: Peter Orford: The Mystery of Edwin Drood22: Michael Hollington: 'Milestones on the Dover Road': Dickens and Travel23: Hazel Mackenzie: Journalism and Correspondence24: Molly Clark Hillard: Charles Dickens and the 'Dark Corners' of Children's LiteraturePart III: The Socio-Historical Contexts25: James Eli Adams: The Trouble with Angels: Dickens, Gender, and Sexuality26: Holly Furneaux: Domesticity and Queer Theory27: Tyson Stolte: Psychology, Psychiatry, Mesmerism, Dreams, Insanity, and Psychoanalytic Criticism28: Jonathan Smith: Dickens and Astronomy, Biology, and Geology29: David Vincent: Social Reform30: Richard Menke: Dickens, Industry, and Technology31: Claire Wood: Material Culture32: Wendy Parkins: Dickens and Affect33: David Paroissien: History and Change: Dickens and the Past34: Chris Vanden Bossche: Class and its Distinctions35: James Buzard: Race, Imperialism, Colonialism, Post-Colonialism, and Cosmopolitanism36: Ayse Çelikkol: Dickens, Political Economy, and Money37: Jennifer McDonell: Dickens and Animal Studies38: Allen MacDuffie: Dickens and the Environment39: Jennifer Gribble: Dickens and Religion40: Helena Michie: Drinking in Dickens41: Chip Badley and Kay Young: Cognitive DickensPart IV: The Literary and Cultural Contexts42: Daniel Tyler: Dickens's Language43: Robert Tracy: Genres: Auctor Ludens, or Dickens at Play44: John Glavin: Dickens and the Theatre45: Helen Groth: Dickens' Visual MediationsPart V: Dickens Re-Visioned46: Paul Young: Dickens's World System: Globalized Modernity as Combined and Uneven Development47: Regenia Gagnier: Dickens's Global Circulation48: Sharon Aronofsky Weltman: Adopting and Adapting Dickens Since 1870: Stage, Film, Radio, Television49: Juliet John: Adopting and Adapting Dickens in the Internet Age

This will be a valuable resource for all Dickens readers, and it will complement any reading of Dickens's prose.