From the Book - Updated edition.
The great popularity / G.K. Chesterton --
Dickens's radicalism, plausibility, and his image of the working man / George Orwell --
Introduction to Great expectations / George Bernard Shaw --
Little Dorrit / Lionel Trilling --
The heroes and heroines of Dickens / Angus Wilson --
Mr. Micawber and the redefinition of experience / William Oddie --
Dickens and violence / John Carey --
Discipline in different voices : bureaucracy, police, family, and Bleak house / D.A. Miller --
Dickens and Darwin / George Levine --
Our mutual friend : the taught self / Pam Morris --
Dickens and language / Garrett Stewart --
Charles Dickens, syndrome spotter : a review of some morbid observations / John Cosnett.
Introduction / Harold Bloom
Biography of Charles Dickens / Marie Tennent Shephard
On the works of Charles Dickens / Mei Chin
The limitations of Dickens / Henry James
On the alleged optimism of Dickens / G.K. Chesterton
Chracterization / George Gissing