Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies is a comprehensive and
authoritative guide to the study of one of the most important Victorian
novelists. Its editors, Robert L. Patten and John Bowen, are leading
authorities on Dickens and the international team of contributors they
have assembled contains some of the most exciting critics of
nineteenth-century fiction writing today. The book covers the whole
range of Dickens's writing and criticism about it, including
biographical, theoretical and historical approaches. It is based on
up-to-the-minute research and written in a lively and engaging way, and
will be essential reading for all students and scholars of this
canonical writer.