Machine generated contents note: Preface; Chronology; 1. Dickens the entertainer: 'people must be amuthed'; 2. Dickens and language: 'what I meantersay'; 3. Dickens and the city: 'animate London ... inanimate London'; 4. Dickens, gender, and domesticity: 'be it ever ... so ghastly ... there's no place like it'; 5. Adapting Dickens: 'he do the police in different voices'; Further reading.
The Cambridge introduction to Charles Dickens by Jon Mee. ISBN 9780521676342. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.