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