Critical Assessments

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1 CHARLES DICKENS Critical Assessments Edited by Michael Hollington VOLUME II Dickens's Early and Middle Work: Assessments since 1870 HELM INFORMATION

2 Contents Volume II Assessments of Dickens's Early and Middle Work since 1870 Sketches by Boz 104. DUANE DEVRIES,' "A Visit to Newgate" and Three Tales', 3 from Dickens's Apprentice years: The Making of a Novelist, Hassocks, 1976, pp ANGUS EASSON, 'Who is Boz? Dickens and His Sketches', The 26 Dickensian, LXXXI, Spring 1985, pp GEORGE WING, 'The First of the Singles: Watkins Tottle', 36 Dickens Quarterly, VI, March 1989, pp Sketches by Boz and 'The Pantomime of Life' 107. WILLIAM F. AXTON, 'Sketches by Boz and the TheatrumMundi 47 from Circle of Fire; Dickens's Vision and Style and the Popular Victorian Theatre, Lexington, Ky., 1966, pp Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi 108. LEIGH WOODS, 'The Curse of Performance: Inscripting the 60 Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi into The Life of Charles Dickens', Biography, XIV, no. 2,1991, pp Pickwick Papers 109. W.H. AUDEN, 'Dingley Dell & the Fleet,' from The Dyer's 77 Hand and other essays, London, 1956, pp

3 110. HANS ROBERT JAUSS,'The Comic of Innocence The 93 Innocence of the Comic (Dickens's Comic Hero)', Asthetische Erfahrungund literarische Hermeneutik, Munich, ALEXANDER WELSH, from Reflections on the Hero as Quixote, 101 Princeton, NJ, 1981, pp. 9-12; 25-32; N.N. FELTES, 'The Moment of Pickwick, or the Production of 113 a Commodity Text', Literature and History, X, Autumn 1984, pp JAMES E. MARLOW, 'Pickwick's Writing: Propriety and 128 Language', ELH, LII, Winter 1985, pp PAUL SCHLICKE, 'The Showman of The Pickwick Papers', 149 Dickens Studies Annual, XX, 1991, pp Oliver Twist 115. GRAHAM GREENE, Introduction to Oliver Twist, London, JACK LINDSAY, 'At Closer Grips', from Charles Dickens: A 171 Biographical and Critical Study, New York, 1950, pp ARNOLD KETTLE, 'Dickens: Oliver Twist', from An 176 Introduction to the English Novel, London, 1951, vol EDGAR ROSENBERG, 'The Jew as Bogey: Dickens' from 188 Shy lock to Svengali: Jewish Stereotypes in English Fiction. Stanford, Ca., 1960, pp STANLEY TICK,'Oliver Twist: "A stronger hand than 208 chance"', Renascence, XXXIII, Summer 1981, pp D.A. MILLER, 'The Novel and the Police', Glyph 8:Johns 221 Hopkins Textual Studies, Baltimore and London 1981, pp MICHAL PELED GINSBURG, 'Truth and Persuasion: The 228 Language of Realism and of Ideology in Oliver Twist', Novel, XX, Spring 1987, pp DAVID PAROISSIEN, Introduction, The Companion to Oliver 247 Twist, Edinburgh, 1992, pp Nicholas Nickleby 123. STEVEN MARCUS, 'The True Prudence', from From Pickwick 259 todombey, London, 1965, pp CAROL HANBERYMACKAY, 'The Melodramatic Impulse in 285 Nicholas Nickleby', Dickens Quarterly, V, Sept. 1988, pp VI

4 125. SYLVIA MANNING, 'Dickens's Nickleby and Cavalcanti's: 298 Comedy and Fear,' Dickens Studies Annual, XVII, 1988, pp LEWIS HORNE, 'Covenant and Power in Nicholas Nickleby: or 317 the Guidance of Newman Noggs', Papers on Language and Literature, XXV, no. 2, Spring, 1989, pp TATIANA M. HOLWAY, 'The Game of Speculation: Economics 328 and Representation', Dickens Quarterly, IX, Sept. 1992, pp Master Humphrey's Clock 128. MALCOLM ANDREWS, 'Introducing Master Humphrey', The 343 Dickensian, LXVII, May 1971, pp The Old Curiosity Shop 129. ALDOUS HUXLEY, 'The Vulgarity of Little Nell', from 359 Vulgarity in Literature, London, 1930, pp THEODOR WIESENGRUND ADORNO, 'An Address on 362 Charles Dickens's Old Curiosity Shop', Frankfurter Zeitung, LXXV, 18 April 1931, revised GABRIEL PEARSON, 'The Old Curiosity Shop', from Dickens 370 and the Twentieth Century, John Gross and Gabriel Pearson (eds), London, 1962, pp SUSAN HORTON, 'One Reader Reading: The Reader in The 382 Old Curiosity Shop', from The Reader in the Dickens World, London,1981, pp CHRIS BROOKS,' "The Magic Reel": Metaphor and Reality in 393 The Old Curiosity Shop', from Signs for the Times, London, 1984, pp Barnaby Rudge 134. VOLKER KLOTZ, 'The City in Barnaby Rudge', from Die 409 erzdhlte Stadt, Munich, 1969, pp THOMAS J. RICE, 'The Politics of Barnaby Rudge' from Robert 426 Giddings (ed), The Changing World of Charles Dickens, London, 1983, pp JULIET McMASTER,' "Better to be Silly": From Vision to 444 Reality in Barnaby Rudge', Dickens Studies Annual, XIII, 1984, pp vii

5 American Notes 137. PETER CONRAD,'Institutional America: Frances Trollope, 461 Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens', from Imagining America, New York, London, 1980, pp Martin Chuzzlewit 138. A.C. BENSON, 'Fiction and Romance', Contemporary Review, 471 Dec. 1911, pp J. HILLIS MILLER, 'The Sources of Dickens's Comic Art: 483 From American Notes to Martin Chuzzlewit', Nineteenth Century Fiction, XXTV, 1970, pp MALCOLM BRADBURY, 'Dangerous Pilgrimages: 492 Transatlantic Images in Fiction (II)', VicoMwterXLVIII, Feb. 1977, pp HAROLD OLOFSON, 'The Birds and the Barber: An 504 Anthropological Analysis of a Joke in Charles Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit', from Michael A. Salter (ed.), Play: An Anthropological Perspective, West Point, N.Y., 1978, pp SYLVERE MONOD, 'Mrs Gamp and Mrs Harris', from Martin 513 Chuzzlewit, London, 1985, pp LESLIE A. FIEDLER, 'Martin Chuzzlewit A Great Bad Book', 529 in Robert Druce (ed), A Centre of Excellence: Essays Presented to Seymour Betsky Costerus, n.s. LVIII, Amsterdam, 1987, pp Pictures from Italy 144. KENNETH CHURCHILL,'Charles Dickens, ( )', from 537 Italy and English Literature , London and New York, 1980, pp The Christmas Books 145. JOHN BUTT, 'Dickens's Christmas Books', Pope, Dickens and 543 Others, Edinburgh, 1969, pp vin

6 A Christmas Carol 146. STEPHEN PRICKETT, 'Christmas at Scrooge's', Victorian 557 Fantasy, Hassocks, Bloomington, Ind., 1979, pp The Chimes 147. MICHAEL SHELDEN, 'Dickens, The Chimes, and the Anti-Corn 565 Law League', Victorian Studies, XXV, Spring 1982, pp The Cricket on The Hearth 148. ROBERT L. PATTEN,'"ASurprising Transformation": 588 Dickens and the Hearth', in U.C. Knoepflmacher and G.B. Tennyson (eds), Nature and the Victorian Imagination. Berkeley, Ca., 1977, pp The Battle of Life and The Life of Our Lord 149. KATHERINE CAROLAN,' The Battle of Life: a Love Story', The 603 Dickensian, LXIX, 1973, pp The Haunted Man 150. LUCIEN POTHET, 'Charles Dickens's The Haunted Man: A 609 Secret and its Disguises', Etudes anglaises, LXV, 1976, pp A Child's History of England 151. ROSEMARYJANN,'Fact, Fiction and Interpretation in A 629 Child's History ofengland', Dickens Quarterly, IV, Dec. 1987, pp BARRY WESTBURG,'"His Allegorical Way of Expressing It": 636 Civil War and Psychic Conflict in Oliver Twist and A Child's History', Studies in the Novel, VI, Spring 1974, pp