<i>A Companion to Charles Dickens</i> concentrates on the historical, ideological, and social forces that defined Dickens’s world. <br /> <ul> <li>Puts Dickens’s work into its literary, historical, and social contexts</li> <li>Traces the development of Dickens’s career as a journalist and novelist</li> <li>Includes original essays by leading Dickensian scholars on each of Dickens’s fifteen novels</li> <li>Explores a broad range of topics, including criticisms of his novels, the use of history and law in his fiction, language, and the effect of political and social reform</li> <li>Examines Dickens's legacy and surveys the mass of secondary materials that has been generated in response and reverence to his writing</li> </ul>
