Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Contents vii
4. List of Abbreviations ix
5. Introduction: Changing Dickens xi
6. I. Dickens and Social Change
7. Repetitions and Reversals: Patterns for Social Change in Pickwick Papers 3
8. Three Revolutions: Alternate Routes to Social Change in Bleak House 19
9. Dickens, Society, and Art: Change in Dickens’s View of Effecting Social Reform 33
10. The World Changing Dickens, Dickens Changing the World 47
11. II. Dickens and Changes of Power
12. Parrots, Birds of Prey, and Snorting Cattle: Dickens’s Whig Agenda of the 1840s 61
13. “The Tremendous Potency of the Small”: Dickens, the Individual, and Social Change in a Post-America, Post-Catastrophist Age 75
14. Money, Power, and Appearance in Dombey and Son 85
15. III. Dickens and Literary Change
16. The Passing of the Pickwick Moment 99
17. The Chimes and the Rhythm of Life 111
18. Radical Dickens: Dickens and the Tradition of Romantic Radicalism 129
19. Modern Characters in the Late Novels of Charles Dickens 145
20. IV. Dickens and Changes in Popular Culture and in the Theater
21. The Cultural Politics of Charles Dickens’s Hard Times 159
22. Conjuring Dickens: Magic, Intellectual Property, and The Old Curiosity Shop 173
23. Popular Dickens: Changing Bleack House for the East End Stage 191
24. The Frozen Deep: Gad’s Hill, June–July 1857 205
25. How to Read Dickens in English: A Last Retrospect 219
26. Index 235