A selective bibliography of 27 active links for Charles Dickens, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites
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Baumgarten, Murray. "Seeing Double: Jewish Isolation in Oliver Twist and Our Mutual Friend." From Between "Race" and Culture: Representations of "the Jew" in English and American Literature
Buckley, Peter G. "The Old Curiosity Shop and the New Antique Store: A Note on the Vanishing Curio in NY City," by In Commonplace, vol. 4, no. 2, January 2004
Choi, Tina Young. "Completing the Circle: The Victorian Sanitary Movement, Our Mutual Friend, and Narrative Closure." Paper from the Dickens Project Winter Conference, 1999
Clark, Robert. A substantial introduction to Charles Dickens from the Literary Encyclopedia
Claybaugh, Amanda. "Dickensian Intemperance: Charity and Reform." Claybaugh begins, "The Pickwick Papers (1836-37) is now best known for having inaugurated the Victorian novel. ... After Pickwick, and because of its example, novels tended to take a single form: often illustrated, often serialized, invariably realist, and almost always socially engaged. But Pickwick was, I want to suggest, inaugural in another sense as well. It was the first novel to think through the relation between realism and social reform." Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Fall 2003
Craig, Amanda. "On Charles Dickens' Great Expectations." A short essay on the appeal of this novel for readers of all ages. The New Statesman, Dec 2, 2002
Forster, John. A reprint of old criticism, John Forster's The Life of Charles Dickens (London: Cecil Palmer, 1872-74)
Gissing, George. A reprint of older criticism, George Gissing's The Immortal Dickens (London: Cecil Palmer, 1925)
Gissing, George. Older criticism, on Gissing's Charles Dickens, A Critical Study, 1898
Higbie, Robert. A review of Robert Higbie's Dickens and the Imagination, (Univ. Press of Florida, 1998)(removed from http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/english/19c/books/rev-0-8130-1593-6.html)
Jaffe, Audrey. A complete, book-length critical study, Vanishing Points: Dickens, Narrative, and the Subject of Omniscience (Univ. of California Press, 1991) is published in full here. "Audrey Jaffe uses Dickens's novels and sketches to redefine narrative omniscience as a problematic that has implications for the construction of Victorian subjectivity." Courtesy of the California Digital Library
Lougy, Robert E. "Desire and the ideology of violence: America in Charles Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit." Criticism, Fall, 1994
MacKay, Carol Hanbery. "Narrating Self-Creation: John Harmon's Soliloquy in Our Mutual Friend." from Soliloquy in Nineteenth-Century Fiction: Consciousness Creating Itself
Nayder, Lillian. A review of Unequal Partners: Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Victorian Authorship (Cornell Univ. Press, 2002). In Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Fall 2002 reviewed by Coleman, Dawn
Saintsbury, George. Older criticism of Dickens' major and minor works and a biography, The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907-21)
Smiley, Charles. A review of Smiley's biography of Dickens, Charles Dickens, which contends that Dickens may have been "the first true celebrity." Review by David Lodge in The Atlantic Monthly Online, May 2002 (removed)
Background reading on the Industrial Revolution as it relates to Oliver Twist and Hard Times, from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
On the challenges of teaching Our Mutual Friend to contemporary students, Professor Helena Michie and the editors of "Our Mutual Friend: The Scholarly Pages," 1998
A guide for teaching Oliver Twist, from PBS. Includes suggestions on presenting and discussing episodes of the film version and suggestions for using film to develop critical, analytical skills
"Teaching A Tale of Two Cities" Long article from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, by John L. Colle
"Familial Relationships in Great Expectations: The Search for Identity." A substantial article from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, by Anthony F. Franco
Information on Charles Dickens especially useful for teachers "Charles Dickens: The Life of the Author." From the NY Public Library. Additional background materials on Victorian art and technology from the educational collaborative Fathom
A feature page on Victorian times, from the British Broadcasting Company, contains social history and an introduction to the period
The Victorian Web has introductory essays on Charles Dickens' writing techniques, themes, biography, and the Victorian cultural and historical context
"Swinburne as a Critic. - much is learned about Swinburne himself while reading his descriptive criticism about Dickens." The New Statesman, April 14, 2003 (removed from http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4633_132/ai_100392959)
"'The Perils of Certain English Prisoners': Dickens' Defensive Fantasy of Imperial Stability," on a work by Dickens and Wilkie Collins. By graduate student Nicholas Stewart, part of The Imperial Archive Project, from Queens Univ. Belfast
A biography of Charles Dickens from Books and Writers web site, the Kuusankoski Public Library, Finland
A list of Charles Dickens etexts available on the internet from the On-Line Books Page, a search engine from John Mark Ockerbloom that provides links to full texts on the internet
"The Public and Private Worlds of Charles Dickens," a summary of past articles on Dickens in The Atlantic Monthly, some dating from the 1800's, with links to the original articles. In The Atlantic Monthly Online, Apr 26, 2002 (removed)
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