Stewart investigates the fanciful impulse among Dickens's characters, their exchange of semblance for reality, their use of the imagination as a means of retali

Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination offers an original analysis of how Charles Dickens's use of "low" and "slangular" (his neologism) language allowed him to expres

Sally Ledger offers substantial readings of the influences of radical writers on works from Pickwick to Little Dorrit.

At the height of his career, writing short stories provided Dickens with a release from the formal constraints of his novels and gave free reign to his creative