The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens

This book is part of a distinguished and wide‐ranging series of Cambridge Companions to Literature, which has already attained a high reputation for reliability and usefulness. One might think indeed that a volume on Charles Dickens ‐ still, of course, immensely popular, as one of the most discussed, if also sometime misrepresented, of all our Victorian authors ‐ is very necessary and highly desirable. We must have here a compact and thoroughly acceptable book, containing challenging and entertaining chapters by 14 international scholars, covering the whole range of the works by Dickens, diverse and demanding as most of these...