- Paperback - Number of Pages: 480 pages
- Dimensions: 128 x 196 x 34mm - 358.34g
- Publication date: 25 Aug 1994
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
- Edition: New edition
CHAPTER ONE: The First Major Novel: Dombey and Son - F.R.L.; Appendix: Dickens and Smollett - Q.D.L. CHAPTER TWO: Dickens and Tolstoy: The Case for a Serious View of David Copperfield - Q.D.L; Appendix A: Dora 'from a woman's point of view'; Appendix B: Oliver Twist, Jane Eyre and David Copperfield; Appendix C: Dickens's Exposure Scenes. CHAPTER THREE: Bleak House: A Chancery World - Q.D.L; Appendix A: The Symbolic Function of the Doctor in Victorian Novels; Appendix B: Mayhew and Dickens. CHAPTER FOUR: Hard Times: The World of Bentham - F.R.L. CHAPTER FIVE: Dickens and Blake: Little Dorrit - F.R.L. CHAPTER SIX: How we must read Great Expectations - Q.D.L. CHAPTER SEVEN: The Dickens Illustrations: Their Function - Q.D.L.