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.

List of Illustrations - Editor's Preface - Notes on the Contributors - Little Dorrit and Three Kinds of Science; G.Levine - Sketches by Boz Revisited; S.Monod - 'Cartloads of Books': Some Sources for A Tale of Two Cities; A.Sanders - The Dickens World Revisited; K.J.Fielding - Dickens in his Letters: The Regress of the Radical; G.Storey - From Outrage to Rage: Dickens' Bruised Femininity; U.C.Knoepflmacher - Chips off the Block: Dickens' Serialising Imitators; J.Sutherland - PART 2 - Rereading Victorian Poetry; I.Armstrong - The Gaskells and Unitarians; R.K.Webb - Peacock's Victorian Novel; M.Slater - Thackeray: Novelist of Society; A.R.Humphreys - Heroines Adrift: George Eliot and the Victorian Ideology of Family; M.Wolff - The Victorians in Virginia Woolf; G.Beer - Index

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