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Dickens and the Condition of England View Online

The following reading list is designed to show the range and scale of writing on Dickens. Material related to the primary texts appears in Part A. Part B material relates to Dickens and the Condition of England Question. Material in Parts C and D provides background on research methods using Victorian periodicals and the relationship between literature and history. For those still in search of more material, a general bibliography of further work on Dickens follows in Part E.

Ackroyd, Peter. Dickens. London: Minerva, 1991. Print.

Allen, Michael. Charles Dickens’ Childhood. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1988. Print.

Allen, Walter Ernest, Slater, Michael, and Dickens Fellowship (London, England). Dickens 1970: Centenary Essays. London: Chapman & Hall for the Dickens Fellowship, 1970. Print.

Alton, Anne Hiebert. ‘Education in Victorian Fact and Fiction: Kay- Shuttleworth and Dickens’s Hard Times.’ Dickens Quarterly 9.2 (1992): 67–80. Web. .

Anderson, Amanda . ‘Cosmopolitanism in Different Voices: Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion.’ The Powers of Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment. Princeton, [N.J]: Princeton University Press, 2001. 63–90. Print.

Anderson, Amanda. Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993. Print.

Andrews, Malcolm. ‘Illustrations.’ A Companion to Charles Dickens. Blackwell companions to literature and culture. Malden, Mass: Blackwell, 2008. Web. .

Baird, John D. ‘Divorce and Matrimonial Causes’: An Aspect of Hard Times.’ Victorian Studies 20 (1977): 401–412. Web. .

Bakhtin, Mikhail. ‘Heteroglossia in the Novel: Little Dorrit.’ Charles Dickens. Longman critical readers. London: Longman, 1996. Print.

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Barnes, Christopher. ‘Hard Times: Fancy as Practice.’ Dickens Studies Annual 34 (2004): 233–258. Web. .

Belcher, Diane Dewhurst. ‘Dickens’s Mrs. Sparsit and the Politics of Service.’ Dickens Quarterly 2 (1985): 92–98. Web. .

Bigelow, Gordon. ‘Market Indicators: Banking and Domesticity in Dickens’s Bleak House.’ ELH 67 (2000): 589–615. Print.

Blain, Virginia. ‘Double Vision and the Double Standard in Bleak House: A Feminist Perspective.’ Literature and History 11 (1985): 31–46. Web. .

Bloom, Harold. Charles Dickens. Modern critical views. New York: Chelsea House, 1987. Print.

---. Charles Dickens. Modern critical views. New York: Chelsea House, 1987. Print.

Bloom, Harold. Charles Dickens’s Hard Times. Modern critical interpretations. New York: Chelsea House, 1987. Print.

---. ‘The Industrial Novels: Hard Times.’ Charles Dickens’s Hard Times. Modern critical interpretations. New York: Chelsea House, 1987. Print.

Blount, Trevor. ‘Dickens’s Slum Satire in Bleak House.’ JSTOR: All Volumes and Issues - Browse - The Modern Language Review 60 (1965): 340–351. Print.

Bodenheimer, Rosemarie. Knowing Dickens. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007. Print.

Bowen, John, and Patten, Robert L. Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies. Palgrave advances. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Web. .

Brake, Laurel. ‘Half Full Half Empty.’ Journal of Victorian Culture 17.2 (2012): 222–229. Web.

Brantlinger, Patrick. ‘Dickens and the Factories.’ Nineteenth-Century Fiction 26 (1971): 270–285. Web. .

Butterworth, R.D. . ‘Dickens the Journalist: The Preston Strike and ‘On Strike’.’ Dickensian 89.2.430 (1993): 129–138. Print.

Butterworth, R.D. ‘Dickens the Novelist: The Preston Strike and Hard Times.’ Dickensian 88.2.427 (1992): 91–102. Print.

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Butt, John Everett, and Tillotson, Kathleen Mary. ‘Chapter 7 - The Topicality of Bleak House.’ Dickens at Work. London: Methuen. Print.

Butt, John, and Kathleen Tillotson. ‘Hard Times: The Problems of a Weekly Serial.’ Dickens at Work. London: Methuen. 201–209. Print.

Butwin, Joseph. ‘Hard Times: The News and the Novel.’ Nineteenth-Century Fiction 32.2 (1977): 166–187. Web. .

Buzard, James. ‘Anywhere’s Nowhere: Bleak House as Metropolitan Autoethnography.’ Disorienting Fiction: The Autoethnographic Work of Nineteenth-Century British Novels. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. 105–156. Web. .

Campbell, Elizabeth A. Fortune’s Wheel: Dickens and the Iconography of Women's Time. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2003. Print.

Camus, Marianne. Gender and Madness in the Novels of Charles Dickens. Studies in British literature. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2004. Print.

Carey, John. The Violent Effigy: A Study of Dickens’ Imagination. London: Faber and Faber. Print.

Carlisle, Janice. ‘Little Dorrit: Necessary Fictions.’ The Sense of an Audience: Dickens, Thackeray and George Eliot at Mid-Century. [Place of publication not identified]: Harvester Press, 1982. 195–214. Print.

Carnall, Geoffrey. ‘Dickens, Mrs. Gaskell, and the Preston Strike.’ Victorian studies: a quarterly journal of the humanities, arts and sciences 8 (1964): 31–38. Print.

Carr, Jean Ferguson. ‘Writing as a Woman: Dickens, Hard Times and Feminine Discourses.’ David Copperfield and Hard Times: Charles Dickens. New casebooks. Basingstoke: St. Martin’s Press, 1995. 197–218. Print.

Chandler, James. An Archaeology of Sympathy: The Sentimental Mode in Literature and Cinema. Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. Print.

Childers, Joseph. ‘Politicized Dickens: The Journalism of the 1850s.’ Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies. Palgrave advances. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 198–215. Web. .

---. ‘So, This Is Christmas’.’ Contemporary Dickens. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2009. 113–130. Print.

Chittick, Kathryn. Dickens and the 1830’s. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Print.

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Christ, Carol T., and Jordan, John O. Victorian Literature and the Victorian Visual Imagination. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. Print.

Cohen, Jane R. Charles Dickens and His Original Illustrators. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1980. Print.

Cohen, Monica F. Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel: Women, Work, and Home . Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Print.

Coles, Nicholas. ‘The Politics of Hard Times: Dickens the Novelist Versus Dickens the Reformer.’ Dickens Studies Annual 15 (1986): 145–179. Web. .

Collins, Philip. Charles Dickens: The Critical Heritage. The critical heritage series. London: Routledge, 1971. Web. .

Collins, Philip . ‘Dickens and Industrialism.’ Studies in English Literature 20 (1980): 651–673. Web. .

---. ‘Dickens and London.’ The Victorian City: Images and Realities. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973. Print.

Collins, Philip Arthur William. Dickens and Crime. 3rd ed. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994. Print.

---. Dickens and Education. London: Macmillan: New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1963. Print.

---. Dickens, Interviews and Recollections. 1st ed. London: Macmillan, 1981. Print.

Connor, Steven. Charles Dickens. Longman critical readers. London: Longman, 1996. Print.

---. Charles Dickens. Rereading literature. Oxford: Blackwell, 1985. Print.

---. Charles Dickens. Longman critical readers. London: Longman, 1996. Print.

Connor, Steven. ‘Deconstructing Dickens: Bleak House.’ Charles Dickens. Rereading literature. Oxford: Blackwell, 1985. 59–88. Print.

---. ‘Deconstructing Dickens: Hard Times.’ David Copperfield and Hard Times: Charles Dickens. New casebooks. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1995. 155–170. Print.

Cook, Chris. The Longman Companion to Britain in the Nineteenth Century, 1815-1914. Longman companions to history. London: Longman, 1999. Print.

Cronin, Mark. ‘Henry Gowan, William Makepeace Thackeray, and “The Dignity of Literature” Controversy’. Dickens Quarterly 16.2 (1999): 104–145. Web.

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Crosby, Christina. ‘History and the Melodramatic Fix.’ The Ends of History: Victorians and the Woman Question. New York: Routledge, 1991. 69–109. Print.

Daleski, H.M. . ‘Large Loose Baggy Monsters and Little Dorrit.’ Dickens Studies Annual 21 (1992): 131–142. Web. .

Davis, Paul . ‘Chapters 1-3.’ The Lives and Times of Ebenezer Scrooge. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990. Print.

Davis, Paul. The Penguin Dickens Companion: The Essential Reference to His Life and Work . London: Penguin, 1999. Print.

Dever, Carolyn. ‘Broken Mirror, Broken Words: Autobiography, Prosopopeia, and the Dead Mother in Bleak House.’ Studies in the Novel 27 (1995): 42–62. Web. .

Dickens, Charles. Dickens on England and the English. [Place of publication not identified]: Harvester Press, 1979. Print.

---. Little Dorrit. Penguin popular classics. London: Penguin, 1994. Print.

---. The Letters of Charles Dickens. Pilgrim ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965. Print.

---. ‘The Uncommercial Traveller: Night Walks.’ The Uncommercial Traveller and Other Papers, 1859-70. Ed. Drew, John and Slater, Michael. The Dent uniform edition of Dickens’ journalism. London: Dent, 2000. 148–156. Print.

Dickens, Charles. & Fielding, K.J. The Speeches of Charles Dickens. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Print.

Dickens, Charles, Ford, George Harry, and Monod, Sylve ̀ re. Bleak House: An Authoritative and Annotated Text, Illustrations, a Note on the Text, Genesis and Composition, Backgrounds, Criticism. 1st ed. A Norton critical edition. New York: Norton, 1977. Print.

Dickens, Charles, Kaplan, Fred, and Monod, Sylve ̀ re. Hard Times: An Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism. 3rd ed. / edited by Fred Kaplan, Sylve ̀ re Monod. Norton critical editions. London: W.W. Norton & Co, 2001. Print.

Dickens, Charles, and Leech, John. A Christmas Carol: In Prose ; Being a Ghost Story of

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Christmas. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1946. Print.

Dickens, Charles (Pascoe, D. ed). Selected Journalism 1850-1870. London: Penguin Classics, 1997. Print.

---. Selected Journalism 1850-1870. London: Penguin Classics, 1997. Print.

Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert. Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. Print.

Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert. ‘Dickens: Going Astray’.’ The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists. Cambridge companions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Print.

Drew, John M. L. Dickens the Journalist. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Web. .

Dugger, Julie M. ‘Editorial Interventions: Hard Times’s Industrial Imperative.’ Dickens Studies Annual 32 (2002): 151–177. Web. .

Dvorak, Wilfred. ‘The Misunderstood Pancks: Money and the Rhetoric of Disguise in Little Dorrit.’ Studies in the Novel 23.3 (1991): 339–347. Web. .

Easson, Angus. ‘A Novel Scarcely Historical? Time and History in Dickens’s Little Dorrit.’ Essays and Studies 44 (1991): 27–40. Web. .

Easson, Angus, and English Association. ‘History and the Novel.’ Issued as: Essays and studies. - Vol. 41 (1991) (1991): n. pag. Print.

Eigner, Edwin. ‘Dogmatism and Puppyism: The Novelist, the Reviewer, and the Serious Subject: The Case of Little Dorrit.’ Dickens Studies Annual 22 (1993): 217–237. Web. .

Eigner, Edwin M. The Dickens Pantomime. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. Print.

Elam, Diane . ‘Another Day Done and I’m Deeper in Debt’: Little Dorrit and the Debt of the Everyday.’ Dickens Refigured: Bodies, Desires, and Other Histories. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996. 157–177. Print.

Ericksen, Donald H. ‘Bleak House and Victorian Art and Illustration: Charles Dickens’s Visual Narrative Style.’ Journal of Narrative Technique 13 (1983): 31–46. Web. .

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Eysell, Joanne. A Medical Companion to Dickens’s Fiction. European university studies. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2005. Print.

Fielding, K.J. . ‘The Battle for Preston.’ Dickensian 50 (1954): 159–162. Print.

Fielding, K.J., and Anne Smith. ‘Hard Times and the Factory Controversy: Dickens vs. Harriet Martineau.’ Nineteenth-Century Fiction 24.4 (1970): 404–427. Web. .

Flint, Kate. Dickens. Harvester new readings. Brighton: Harvester, 1986. Print.

---. The Victorians and the Visual Imagination. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Print.

Ford, George Harry. Dickens and His Readers: Aspects of Novel-Criticism since 1836. New York: Gordian Press, 1974. Print.

Ford, George Harry, and Lane, Lauriat. The Dickens Critics. Ed. Ford, George H. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1961. Print.

Forster, John, and Hoppe ́ , A. J. The Life of Charles Dickens. New ed. Everymans Library. London: Dent, 1966. Print. Furneaux, Holly, and Dawsonera. Queer Dickens: Erotics, Families, Masculinities. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Web. .

Furniss, Harry, and Cordery, Gareth. An Edwardian’s View of Dickens and His Illustrators: Harry Furniss's ‘A Sketch of Boz’. 1880-1920 british authors series. Greensboro, N.C.: ELT Press, English Dpt., University of North Carolina, 2005. Print.

Gallagher, Catherine. ‘Family and Society in Hard Times.’ David Copperfield and Hard Times: Charles Dickens. New casebooks. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1995. 171–196. Print.

Gallagher, Catherine. The Body Economic: Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006. Web. .

---. The Industrial Reformation of English Fiction: Social Discourse and Narrative Form, 1832-1867. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. Print.

Gallagher, Catherine, and Greenblatt, Stephen. Practicing New Historicism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Print.

Garis, Robert. The Dickens Theatre: A Reassessment of the Novels. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965. Print.

Gilbert, Elliot L. Critical Essays on Charles Dickens’ ‘Bleak House’. Critical Essays on British Literature. Boston: G K Hall & Co, US, 1989. Print.

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Gillooly, Eileen, and David, Deirdre. Contemporary Dickens. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2009. Print.

Gilmour, Robin. ‘The Gradgrind School: Political Economy in the Classroom.’ Victorian studies: a quarterly journal of the humanities, arts and sciences 11 (1967): 207–224. Print.

Gilmour, Robin. The Victorian Period: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1830-1890. Longman literature in English series. London: Longman, 1993. Print.

Gribble, Jennifer . ‘Why the Good Samaritan Was a Bad Economist: Dickens.’ Literature & Theology 18.4 (2004): 427–441. Web. .

Gross, John J., and Pearson, Gabriel. Dickens and the Twentieth Century. London: Routledge and Paul. Print.

Grossman, Jonathan. Charles Dickens’s Networks: Passenger Transport and the Novel. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2012. Print.

Guy, Josephine M. The Victorian Age: An Anthology of Sources and Documents. London: Routledge, 1998. Print.

---. The Victorian Social-Problem Novel: The Market, the Individual and Communal Life. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996. Print.

---. The Victorian Social-Problem Novel: The Market, the Individual and Communal Life. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996. Print.

Hardy, Barbara Nathan. The Moral Art of Dickens: Essays. London: Athlone P., 1970. Print.

Harris, Wendell V. ‘Contextualizing Coram’s Foundling Hospital: Dickens’s Use and Readers’ Interests.’ Reader 43 (2002): 1–19. Print.

Hartley, Jenny. ‘Little Dorrit in Real Time: The Embedded Text.’ Publishing History 52 (2002): 5–18. Web. .

Harvey, John Robert. Victorian Novelists and Their Illustrators. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1970. Print.

Heather, Tilley. ‘Sentiment and Vision in Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol and The Cricket on the Hearth.’ 19: interdisciplinary studies in the long nineteenth century (2007): n. pag. Web. .

Helen Groth. ‘Reading Victorian Illusions: Dickens’s Haunted Man and Dr. Pepper's

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“Ghost”.’ Victorian Studies 50.1 (2007): n. pag. Web. .

Hennelly, Mark M., Jr. ‘The Games of the Prison Children’ in Dickens’s Little Dorrit.’ Nineteenth-Century Contexts 20.2 (1997): 187–213. Web. .

Herbert, Christopher. ‘Filthy Lucre: Victorian Ideas of Money.’ Victorian Studies 44.2 (2002): 185–213. Web. .

Hochman, Baruch. ‘On the Bleakness of Bleak House.’ Rereading Texts, Rethinking Critical Presuppositions n. pag. Print.

Hollington, Michael. ‘Dickens the Flâneur.’ The Dickensian 77 (1981): 71–87. Print.

---. ‘Physiognomy in Hard Times.’ Dickens Quarterly 9.2 (1992): 58–66. Web. .

---. ‘The New Picturesque: Pictures From Italy and Little Dorrit.’ Dickens and the Grotesque. London: Croom Helm, 1984. 138–152. Print.

Holloway, John. ‘Hard Times: A History and Criticism.’ Dickens and the Twentieth Century. London: Routledge and Paul, 1962. 159–174. Print.

Horton, Susan R. The Reader in the Dickens World: Style and Response. London: Macmillan, 1981. Print.

Houghton, Walter Edwards. The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870. New Haven: Published for Wellesley College by Yale University Press, 1957. Print.

House, Humphrey. The Dickens World. 2nd ed. London: Oxford University Press, 1942. Print.

Houston, Gail Turley. ‘Unmindful of Her Wants’: Dickens’s Little Women and the Accession of Desire in Bleak House and Little Dorrit.’ Consuming Fictions: Gender Class and Hunger in Dickens’ Novels. Carbondale, Ill: Southern Illinois University Press, 1994. 123–153. Print.

Humpherys, Anne. ‘Louisa Gradgrind’s Secret: Marriage and Divorce in Hard Times.’ Dickens Studies Annual 25 (1996): 177–195. Web. .

Ingham, Patricia. ‘Dialect as “Realism”: Hard Times and the Industrial Novel’. Review of English Studies 37.148 (1986): 518–527. Web. .

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Ingham, Patricia. Invisible Writing and the Victorian Novel: Readings in Language and Ideology. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. Print.

Jaffe, Audrey. ‘Spectacular Sympathy: Visuality and Ideology in Dickens’s A Christmas Carol’.’ PMLA 109 (1994): 254–265. Print.

Jefferson, D.W. ‘Mr. Gradgrind’s Facts.’ Essays in Criticism 35.3 (1985): 197–212. Web. .

John, J. (ed.). Dickens and Modernity. Essays and Studies v. 65. [Place of publication not identified]: D.S. Brewer. Print.

John, Juliet. Dickens and Mass Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Print.

---. Dickens’ Villains: Melodrama, Character, Popular Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Print.

John, Juliet. ‘Getting Down into the Masses”: Dickens, Journalism and the Personal Mode.’ Shaping Belief: Culture Politics, and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Writing. Liverpool English Texts and Studies v. 52. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2008. 189–207. Print.

Johnson, Edgar. Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph. Revised and abridged ed. London: Allen Lane, 1977. Print.

Johnson, Patricia E. ‘Hard Times and the Structure of Industrialism: The Novel as Factory.’ Studies in the Novel 21.2 (1989): 128–137. Web. .

Jordan, John O. Supposing Bleak House. Victorian literature and culture series. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010. Print.

---. The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens. Cambridge companions to literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Web. .

Judith Newton. ‘Historicisms New and Old: “Charles Dickens” Meets Marxism, Feminism, and West Coast Foucault’. Feminist Studies Vol. 16.No. 3 n. pag. Print.

Kaplan, Fred. Dickens: A Biography. 1st ed. New York: Morrow, 1988. Print.

Ketabgian, Tamara. ‘Melancholy Mad Elephants: Affect and the Animal Machine in Hard Times.’ Victorian Studies 45.4 (2003): 649–676. Web. .

Kincaid, James R. Dickens and the Rhetoric of Laughter. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. Print.

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Kitton, Frederic George. Dickens and His Illustrators: Cruikshank, Seymour, Buss, ‘Phiz’, Cattermole, Leech, Doyle,Stanfield, Machise, Tennier, Frank Stone, Landseer, Palmer, Topham, Marcus Stone, and Luke Fildes. New York: AMS Press, 1975. Print.

Klaver, Claudia. ‘Natural Values and Unnatural Agents: Little Dorrit and the Mid-Victorian Crisis in Agency.’ Dickens Studies Annual 28 (1999): 13–43. Web. .

Knezevic, Borislav. ‘Banking on Sentiments: A Melodramatic Civil Society in Little Dorrit and A Tale of Two Cities.’ Figures of Finance Capitalism: Writing, Class, and Capital in the Age of Dickens. Literary criticism and cultural theory. New York: Routledge, 2003. 147–188. Web. .

Krueger, Christine L. ‘Revisiting the Serial Format of Dickens’s Novels; Or, Little Dorrit Goes a Long Way.’ Functions of Victorian Culture at the Present Time. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2002. 155–168. Print.

LaCapra, Dominick. ‘Ideology and Critique in Dickens’s Bleak House.’ Representations 6 (1984): 116–123. Print.

Langland, Elizabeth. Nobody’s Angels: Middle-Class Women and Domestic Ideology in Victorian Culture. Reading women writing. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1995. Print.

Larson, Janet L. ‘The Seer, the Preacher, and the Living Gospel: Vision and Revision in Little Dorrit.’ Dickens and the Broken Scripture. Illustrated edition. University of Georgia Press. 177–278. Print.

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Leavis, F.R. ‘Hard Times : An Analytic Note.’ The Great Tradition, George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad. [Place of publication not identified]: Chatto & Windus, 1948. 227–248. Print.

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Reviews on Nineteenth-and Twentieth-Century Literature. [Place of publication not identified]: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981. 37–45. Print.

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Lougy, Robert E. ‘Dickens’ Hard Times: The Romance as Radical Literature.’ Dickens Studies Annual 2 (1972): 237–254. Web. .

Lucas, John. ‘Little Dorrit: The World’s City.’ Charles Dickens, the Major Novels. Penguin critical studies. New York: Penguin, 1992. 100–123. Print.

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Mancroft, Debra N. & Trela, D.J. ‘London, Dickens, & the Theatre of Homelessness.’ Victorian Urban Settings. Annotated edition. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities. New York: Taylor & Francis Inc, 1996. Print.

Manning, Sylvia. ‘Social Criticism and Textual Subversion in Little Dorrit.’ Dickens Studies Annual 20 (1991): 127–147. Web. .

Manning, Sylvia Bank. Hard Times: An Annotated Bibliography. Garland reference library of the humanities. London: Garland Pub, 1984. Print.

Marcus, Steven. Dickens from Pickwick to Dombey. London: W.W. Norton, 1985. Print.

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Marsh, Joss Lutz. ‘Inimitable Double Vision: Dickens, Little Dorrit, Photography, Film.’ Dickens Studies Annual 22 (1993): 239–282. Web.

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Miller, D.A. ‘Discipline in Different Voices: Bureaucracy, Police, Family, and Bleak House.’ Representations 1 (1983): 59–89. Print.

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Miller, Joseph H. Charles Dickens: The World of His Novels. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1959. Print.

---. Charles Dickens: The World of His Novels. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1959. Print.

Monod, Sylvere. ‘Dickens as Social Novelist.’ Dickens the Novelist. Norman, Okla: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968. 444–452. Print.

Monod, Sylvère. ‘Dickens at Work on the Text of Hard Times.’ Dickensian 64 (1968): 86–99. Print.

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Morgentaler, Goldie. Dickens and Heredity: When like Begets like. Basingstoke: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. Print.

Mussell, James. ‘Ownership, Institutions, and Methodology - Journal of Victorian Culture - Volume 13, Issue 1.’ n. pag. Web.

Nead, Lynda. Myths of Sexuality: Representations of Women in Victorian Britain. Oxford: Blackwell, 1988. Print.

---. Victorian Babylon: People, Streets and Images in Nineteenth-Century London. London: Yale University Press, 2000. Print.

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Nisbet, A. Dickens Centennial Essays. [Place of publication not identified]: California U.P., 1971. Print.

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Nunokawa, Jeff. ‘Domestic Securities: Little Dorrit and the Fictions of Property.’ The Afterlife of Property: Domestic Security and the Victorian Novel. Oxford: Princeton University Press, 1994. 15–39. Print.

---. ‘Getting and Having: Some Versions of Possession in Little Dorrit.’ Charles Dickens. Modern critical views. New York: Chelsea House, 1987. 317–336. Print.

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Patten, Robert L. George Cruikshank’s Life, Times, and Art. London: Lutterworth, 1992. Print.

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