A Bibliography Selected by Robert Newsom for the 2002 Dickens Universe
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bibliography A Bibliography Selected by Robert Newsom for the 2002 Dickens Universe Note that some items listed here are themselves links. These appear in blue and are marked by underlining. Links that appear as DJ take you to images of dust jackets. For an image of the Dombey & Son wrapper design, click here or on the thumbnail: This a large file (more than 200KB) that may take a while to open. For the summer 2002 reading schedule and discussion and paper topics, click here or on the thumbnail: This is an Adobe Acrobat ® file that requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader to be read. If you do not have the Reader, you may download it for free by clicking here. The Dombey & Son bibliography immediately below in general becomes more selective the more distant the date of publication. I am grateful to those faculty of the Dickens Project who have suggested titles. Items in this section that graduate- student and faculty participants in the 2002 Universe are asked to pay special http://dickens.ucsc.edu/bibliographies/dombeybiblio/DS_Biblio.html[11/22/11 10:42:15 AM] bibliography attention to are marked with an asterisk (*); additional recommended items are marked with a §. With the hope that it may be useful both to people just beginning their work in Dickens as well as those who like me are old enough to have forgotten many standard sources, I have appended with slight adaptation at the end of this bibliography a more general Dickens bibliography from my Charles Dickens Revisited DJ (New York: Twayne Publishers, 2000). I discuss Dombey & Son in that study briefly (pp. 101-09). For the text of that discussion, click here. For a convenient printable version of the Dombey & Son bibliography, click here. Many of the articles listed below are available online at the University of California and at other universities' libraries and terminals. Please check your local institution for availability. Editions The definitive edition is the Clarendon, edited by Alan Horsman (see below). The Clarendon text is reprinted in an Oxford Worldís Classics paperback edition. We will use the Penguin edition, ed. Peter Fairclough, with an Introduction by Raymond Williams, at the 2002 Dickens Universe. Authors listed in boldface are faculty, graduates, and other good friends of the Dickens Project. Criticism Alter, Robert. "Reading Style in Dickens." Philosophy & Literature. 20 (1996): 130-37. Altick, Richard D. "Varieties of Readers' Response: The Case of Dombey & Son." Yearbook of English Studies. 10 (1980): 70-94. Andrews, Malcolm. "Dombey & Son: the New Fashioned Man and the Old-Fashioned Child" in Dickens and the Grown-Up Child. London: Macmillan, 1994. § Arac, Jonathan. "The House and the Railroad: Dombey & Son and The House of the Seven Gables." http://dickens.ucsc.edu/bibliographies/dombeybiblio/DS_Biblio.html[11/22/11 10:42:15 AM] bibliography New England Quarterly. 51 (1978): 3-22. Armstrong, Mary. "Pursuing Perfection: Dombey & Son, Female Homoerotic Desire, and the Sentimental Heroine." Studies in the Novel. 28 (1996): 281-302. § Auerbach, Nina. "Dickens and Dombey: A Daughter after All." Dickens Studies Annual. 5 (1975): 49- 67. Axton, William. "Dombey & Son: From Stereotype to Archetype." ELH. 31 (1964): 301-317. Axton, William. "Tonal Unity in Dombey & Son." PMLA. 78 (1963): 341-348. Baumgarten, Murray. "Railway/Reading/Time: Dombey & Son and the Industrial World." Dickens Studies Annual. 19 (1990): 65-89. Berry, Laura C. "In the Bosom of the Family: The Wet Nurse, The Railroad, and Dombey & Son." Dickens Studies Annual. 25 (1996): 1-28. Boone, Joseph A. and Deborah E. Nord. "Brother and Sister: The Seduction of Siblinghood in Dickens, Eliot, and Brontë." Western Humanities Review. 46 (1992): 164-88. Butt, John and Kathleen Tillotson. Dickens at Work. London: Methuen, 1957. Carlisle, Janice. The Sense of an Audience : Dickens, Thackeray, and George Eliot at Mid-Century. Athens, Georgia : U of Georgia P, 1981. § Clark, Robert. "Riddling the Family Firm: The Sexual Economy in Dombey & Son." ELH. 51 (1984): 69-84. Collins, Phillip. "Dombey & Son--Then and Now." Dickensian. 63 (1967): 82-94. Daleski, H. M. Dickens and the Art of Analogy. New York: Schocken Books (1970). Donoghue, Denis. "The English Dickens and Dombey & Son," in Dickens Centennial Essays, ed. Ada Nisbet and Blake Nevius. Berkeley: U of California P, 1971. Dyson, A.E. "Dombey & Son: cobwebs to sunlight," in The Inimitable Dickens. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1970. Elfenbein, Andrew. "Managing the House in Dombey & Son." Studies in Philology. 92 (1995): 361-82. Flint, Kate. "The Middle Novels: Chuzzlewit, Dombey, and Copperfield," in The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens, ed. John O. Jordan. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001. DJ Green, Michael. "Notes on Fathers and Sons from Dombey & Son." in 1848: The Sociology of Literature, ed. Francis Barker et al. Colchester: U of Essex, 1978. Henkle, Roger B. "The Crisis of Representation in Dombey & Son," in Critical Reconstructions: The Relationship of Fiction and Life, ed. Robert Polhemus and Roger Henkle. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1994. http://dickens.ucsc.edu/bibliographies/dombeybiblio/DS_Biblio.html[11/22/11 10:42:15 AM] bibliography Hill, Nancy Klenk. "Dombey & Son: Parable for the Age." Dickens Quarterly. 8 (1991):169-77. Hollington, Michael. "Dombey & Son and David Copperfield: The Child's Perception of the Grotesque" in Dickens and the Grotesque. London: Croom Helm 1984. Horne, Lewis. "The Way of Resentment in Dombey & Son." MLQ. 51 (1990):44-62. Horsman, Alan, ed. Dombey & Son. The Clarendon Dickens. Oxford: OUP, 1974. Humphreys, Anne. "Dombey & Son: Carker the Manager." Nineteenth-Century Fiction. 34 (1980): 397-413. Ingham, Patricia. "Speech and Non-Communication in Dombey & Son." Review of English Studies. 30 (1979): 144-53. Jackson, Arlene. "Reward, Punishment, and the Conclusion of Dombey & Son." Dickens Studies Annual. 7 (1978): 103-127. § Jaffe, Audrey. Vanishing Points: Dickens, Narrative, and the Subject of Omniscience. Berkeley: U of California, 1991. § Joseph, Gerhard. "Change and the Changeling in Dombey & Son." Dickens Studies Annual. 18 (1989): 179-195. Leavis, F. R. "The First Major Novel: Dombey & Son," in F. R . and Q. D. Leavis, Dickens the Novelist. London: Chatto & Windus, 1970. Lerner, Laurence. Angels and Absences: Child Deaths in the Nineteenth Century. Nashville: Vanderbilt UP, 1997. Loesberg, Jonathan. "Deconstruction, Historicism, and Overdetermination: Dislocations of the Marriage Plots in Robert Elsmere and Dombey & Son." Victorian Studies. 33(1990): 441-464. Lucas, John. "Dombey & Son: Living in a World of Time," in Charles Dickens: the Major Novels. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1992. § Lucas, John. "Dickens and Dombey & Son: Past and Present Imperfect," in John Goode, et al Tradition and Tolerance in Nineteenth-Century Fiction. London: Routledge, 1966. Lucas, John. The Melancholy Man: A Study of Dickens's Novels. London: Methuen, 1970. Mancini, Michelle. "Demons on the Rooftops, Gypsies in the Streets: The 'Secret Intelligence' of Dombey & Son." Dickens Studies Annual. 30 (2001): 113-40. Marcus, David D. "Symbolism and Mental Process in Dombey & Son. Dickens Studies Annual. 6 (1977): 51-71. * Marcus, Steven. "The Changing world," in Dickens: from Pickwick to Dombey. New York: Basic Books, 1965. http://dickens.ucsc.edu/bibliographies/dombeybiblio/DS_Biblio.html[11/22/11 10:42:15 AM] bibliography Marks, Patricia. "Paul Dombey and the Milk of Human Kindness." Dickens Quarterly. 11(1994): 14-25. § Marsh, Joss Lutz. "Good Mrs. Brown's Connection: Sexuality and Story-Telling in Dombey & Son." ELH. 58 (1991): 405-26. McBride, Mary G. "Contemporary Economic Metaphors in Dombey & Son." Dickensian. 90 (1994): 19- 24. McCarthy, Patrick J. "Dombey & Son: Language and the Roots of Meaning." Dickens Studies Annual. 19 (1990): 91-106. McMaster, Juliet. "Dombey & Son: 'The Cold Hard Armour of Pride,'" in Dickens the Designer. London: Macmillan, 1987. Miller, J. Hillis. Charles Dickens: The World of His Novels. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1958. * Moglen, Helene. "Theorizing Fiction/Fictionalizing Theory: The Case of Dombey & Son." Victorian Studies. 35 (1992): 159-84. Morgentaler, Goldie. "Dickens and Reproduction." Dickens Quarterly. 14(1997): 24-32. * Moynahan, Julian. "Dealings with the Firm of Dombey & Son: Firmness versus Wetness," in Dickens and the Twentieth Century, eds. John Gross and Gabriel Pearson. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1962. § Newsom, Robert. "Embodying Dombey: Whole and in Part" Dickens Studies Annual. 18 (1989): 197- 219. (Click here for a .pdf version of this article.) Newsom, Robert. "Domesticity and Dirt," in Charles Dickens Revisited. New York Twayne Publishers, 2000. (Click here for an excerpt.) § Nunokawa, Jeff. "For Your Eyes Only: Private Property and the Oriental Body in Dombey & Son," in Macropolitics of Nineteenth-Century Literature: Nationalism, Exoticism, Imperialism, ed. Jonathan Arac and Harriet Ritvo. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1991. § Patten, Robert L. "The Fight at the Top of the Tree: Vanity Fair versus Dombey & Son." SEL. 10 (1970): 759-73. Pearson, Gabriel, "Towards a Reading of Dombey & Son," in The Modern English Novel: the Reader, the Writer, and the Work, ed. Gabriel Josipovici. London: Open Books, 1976. § Perera, Suvendrini. "Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation: Empire and the Family Business in Dombey & Son." Victorian Studies 33 (1990): 603-620. Rpt. in Reaches of Empire: the English Novel from Edgeworth to Dickens. New York, Columbia UP, 1991. Pickering, Samuel F., Jr. "Dombey & Son and Dickens's Unitarian Period." Georgia Review. 26 (1972): 438-54. Pykett, Lyn. "Dombey & Son: A Sentimental Family Romance." Studies in the Novel 19 (1987): 16-30. http://dickens.ucsc.edu/bibliographies/dombeybiblio/DS_Biblio.html[11/22/11 10:42:15 AM] bibliography Romano, John. "Dombey & Son: the Novel of Reality," in Dickens and Reality. (New York: Columbia, UP 1978). Rosenberg, Marvin. "The Dramatist in Dickens." JEGP. 59 (1960): 11-12. Sadoff, Dianne F. Monsters of Affection : Dickens, Eliot, and Brontë on Fatherhood. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1982. Schacht, Paul. "Dickens and the Uses of Nature." Victorian Studies. 34(1990): 77-102.