Part of "The Dickens Companions" series, this sixth volume presents a format that makes accessible to any reader allusions that may seem otherwise dense or puzzling, as well as providing dependable fa
This new study sets out to recover and illuminate the Victorian culture and allusive verbal worlds that inform the novel. How distinctive are the story's temporal and topographical settings? How caref
Critical responses to Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-44) have varied. His sixth novel has been recognised as Dickens's first mature work and as an achievement of less certain status. By examining the overlap
