Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies

Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies

Robert L. Patten & John Bowen 2006

E-Book: 345 English pages

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies is an up-to-the-minute guide to the study of one of the most important Victorian novelists. Its editors, Robert L. Patten and John Bowen are leading authorities on Dickens, and the international team of contributors they have assembled contains some of the most exciting critics of nineteenth-century fiction writing today. The book covers the whole range of Dickens’s writing and criticism about it, including biographical, theoretical and historical approaches. It is based on the latest research and written in a lively and engaging way, bringing readers a comprehensive guide to the most important contemporary work on this most popular of Victorian novelists. It covers not only Dickens’s celebrated novels but also a wide range of his other writing, including his work in journalism and theatre. Wide-ranging, lucid and authoritative, this is an indispensable work for all students and teachers of Dickens and the nineteenth-century novel.

Review

‘Bob Patten and John Bowen’s collection is a state-of-the art guide to Dickens studies. The editors have assembled a distinguished team of contributors, who clearly and succinctly set forth illuminating perspectives on crucial issues of modern scholarship. Wide-ranging, detailed, and remarkably coherent, it is the best single volume of essays since George Ford and Lauriat Lane’s classic The Dickens Critics first appeared nearly half a century ago, and a must for every serious student of Dickens.’

—- Paul Schlicke, President of the International Dickens Fellowship and Senior Lecturer in English, University of Aberdeen, UK

‘[A] volume of signal importance…a model of its kind’

— Nicola Bradbury, The Dickensian

About the Author

ROBERT L. PATTEN is Autrey Professor in Humanities in the Department of English at Rice University, USA. He is editor of SEL, has written Dickens and His Publishers, an award-winning two-volume biography of the graphic artist George Cruickshank, and articles on the many Victorian writers and artists. He is currently completing a book entitled Dickens and the Industrial Strength Author.JOHN BOWEN is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of York, UK. He is the author of Other Dickens: Pickwick to Chuzzlewit and has edited Dickens’s Barnaby Rudge for Penguin. He is a member of faculty at the University of California Dickens Project and a Fellow of the English Association.