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Dickens and Other Victorians

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  • © 1988

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Editors:
  1. Joanne Shattock

    1. University of Leicester, UK

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Part One

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Little Dorrit and Three Kinds of Science

      • George Levine
      Pages 3-24

    3. Revisiting Sketches by Boz

      • Sylvère Monod
      Pages 25-36

    4. ‘Cartloads of Books’: some Sources for A Tale of Two Cities

      • Andrew Sanders
      Pages 37-52

    5. The Dickens World Revisited

      • K. J. Fielding
      Pages 53-64

    6. Dickens in his Letters: the Regress of the Radical

      • Graham Storey
      Pages 65-74

    7. From Outrage to Rage: Dickens’s Bruised Femininity

      • U. C. Knoepflmacher
      Pages 75-96

    8. Chips off the Block: Dickens’s Serialising Imitators

      • John Sutherland
      Pages 97-119

  3. Part Two

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
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    2. Re-reading Victorian Poetry

      • Isobel Armstrong
      Pages 123-143

    3. The Gaskells as Unitarians

      • R. K. Webb
      Pages 144-171

    4. Peacock’s Victorian Novel

      • Michael Slater
      Pages 172-184

    5. Thackeray: Novelist of Society

      • A. R. Humphreys
      Pages 185-201

    6. Heroines Adrift: George Eliot and the Victorian Ideology of Family

      • Michael Wolff
      Pages 202-213

    7. The Victorians in Virginia Woolf: 1832–1941

      • Gillian Beer
      Pages 214-235

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 236-246
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An attempt to collate a variety of approaches to the work of Dickens and his major contemporaries, from traditional scholarship to recent literary theory. The work emphasizes the connections between Victorian literature and society and highlighting the longevity of the Victorian literary period.

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  • University of Leicester, UK

    Joanne Shattock

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