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ibliography notes to chapters one through three for additional important biographical sources by Henry Dickens, Mamie Dickens, Aylmer, Kent, Nisbet, Rose, Slater, Storey, Tomalin, and Welsh, among others). Useful shorter biographies that were able to draw upon Walter Dexterís three-volume collection of letters for the Nonesuch Edition are Una Pope-Hennessy, Charles Dickens: 1812-1870 (London: Chatto and Windus, 1946) and Hesketh Pearson, Dickens: His Character, Comedy, and Career(London: Methuen, 1949). J. B. Priestleyís Charles Dickens: A Pictorial Biography (London; Thames and Hudson, 1961) has excellent illustrations, as do Angus Wilsonís The World of Charles Dickens(New York: The Viking Press, 1970), which is equally notable for its sound text, written by a major novelist who well understands that Dickensís development did not end at Warrenís. Other centenary volumes notable for illustrative materials are Charles Dickens, 1812-1870: An Anthology Chosen and Annotated by Lola L. Szladits from Materials In The Berg Collection(New York: New York Public Library, 1970), Charles Dickens: An Exhibition to Commemorate the Centenary of His Death, June- September 1970(London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1970), and E. W. F. Tomlin, ed. Charles Dickens 1812- 1870: A Centenary Volume (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1969). More recent biographies of note include Fred Kaplanís extremely professional Dickens: A Biography (New York: Morrow, 1988) and Peter Ackroydís immenseand highly idiosyncratic Dickens (London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1990), which, like Wilsonís, gains insight from having been written by a practicing novelist. Dickensís childhood has naturally attracted specialized biographies. The first of these is Robert Langtonís The Childhood and Youth Of Charles Dickens (London: Hutchinson & Company, 1891), which adds a good deal to what Forster knew; the most recent and authoritative, if dry, is Michael Allen, Charles Dickensí Childhood (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1988), which corrects and adds to Johnsonís account; in between is the very readable and intelligent Christopher Hibbert, The Making of Charles Dickens (New York, Harper & Row, 1967). Albert D. Hutter, "Reconstructive Autobiography: the Experience at Warrenís Blacking," Dickens Studies Annual 6 (1977), 1-14 is an important psychoanalytic study that deserves to be read alongside Steven Marcusís essay "Who is Fagin?" discussed in chapter two. Peter Rowland has compiled an interesting and entertaining autobiographical collage as My Early Times (London: Aurum Press, 1997). Although necessarily synthetic and in some degree fanciful, it is also scholarly, being scrupulous in identifying its components, which are drawn from all Dickensís writing, including of course the autobiographical fragment. Dickensís celebrity in his lifetime insured that there would be a great many published recollections. Philip Collins has gathered the best of these in Dickens: Interviews and Recollections, 2 vols. (London: Macmillan, 1981). For Dickens in his last years, George Dolby, Charles Dickens As I Knew Him (London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1912), is worth reading in spite of its four-hundred-plus pages. (Dolby was Dickensís manager for the reading tours after 1866.) Historical and Background Studies, Literary History Excellent general background studies of the Victorians especially useful to students of Dickens are J. B. Schneewind, Backgrounds of English Victorian Literature (New York: Random House, 1970); Richard D. Altick, Victorian People and Ideas (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1973); and Robin Gilmour, The Victorian Period: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1830-1890, Longman Literature in English Series (London: Longman, 1993). Humphry House, The Dickens World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1941) inaugurated modern historical scholarship on Dickens. Houseís account of the political, religious, and more general intellectual ethos in which Dickens wrote becomes more valuable with every year that carries us further from the Victorians. John Butt and Kathleen Tillotson in Dickens at Work (London: Methuen, 1957) study topical influences and demonstrate how deeply involved Dickens wasóhis apparently universal appeal notwithstandingóin contemporary and local issues. (Tillotsonís "Introductory" chapter and her chapter on Dombey and Son in her Novels of the Eighteen-Forties[Oxford: Clarendon, 1954] show also how mutually influential were Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Thackeray, and Gaskell.) Philip Collins, Dickens and Crime (London: St. Martinís, 1962) and Dickens and Education (London: Macmillan, 1963) study subjects of great importance for Dickens and are worthy successors to House. So too is Norris Popeís Dickens and Charity(New York: Columbia University Press, 1978), which provides along the way a better account of Dickens and religion than do many more precisely focused studiesóas for that matter does Alexander Welsh, The City of Dickens (Oxford: Clarendon, 1971), which is as much about the heavenly city as the secular. Fred Kaplan, Sacred Tears: http://dickens.ucsc.edu/bibliographies/dombeybiblio/DS_Biblio.html[11/22/11 10:42:15 AM]
ibliography Sentimentality in Victorian Literature (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978) discusses the roots especially of Dickensís and Thackerayís responses to sentimentality in eighteenth-century intellectual history. Robert L. Patten,Charles Dickens and His Publishers (Oxford: Clarendon, 1978) is the definitive study of a subject made especially interesting not only on account of Dickensís enormous sales, but also his frequently contentious business dealings. Edwin Eignerís The Dickens Pantomime (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989) demonstrates the influence throughout Dickensís career of a peculiarly British tradition of childrenís drama that draws in turn on fairy tales (a subject frequently treated by Harry Stone, e.g., in Dickens and the Invisible World: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Novel-Making [Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1979]). Journals General Dickens Criticism The Dickensian, Dickens Studies Annual (formerly Dickens Studies), and Dickens Quarterly (formerly Dickens Studies Newsletter) are the specialized journals. Several others produce Dickens criticism of consistently high qualityóamong them, Nineteenth-Century Literature (formerly Nineteenth-Century Fiction), the interdisciplinary Victorian Studies, ELH, Novel, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900. Early Criticism Philip Collinsís edition Dickens: The Critical Heritage (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1971) is invaluable for its almost 170 items published chiefly in Dickensís lifetime (including also reviews of Forster and the first collection of letters). Stephen Wallís volume Charles Dickens in the Penguin Critical Anthologies series (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970) is also excellent (and includes some criticism through the mid-twentieth century). George H. Ford, Dickens and His Readers (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1955) is the best history of Dickensís reception to 1950, and his anthology The Dickens Critics(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1961) is a first-rate companion. G. K. Chesterton is for me the most enduringly interesting of the early critics (a group that includes such lights as Algernon Charles Swinburne, George Gissing, and George Bernard Shaw) in his Charles Dickens (London: Methuen, 1906), which is quasi-biographical, and Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens (London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1911), which collects the brilliant individual introductions he supplied for the Everyman edition of the works. George Orwellís essay on Dickens in Inside the Whale (London: Victor Gollancz, 1940) and Edmund Wilsonís " Dickens: The Two Scrooges," The Wound and the Bow (1941; reprinted New York: Oxford University Press, 1965) each were important to the revival of serious critical interest in Dickens on both sides of the Atlantic and are still very much worth reading beyond that historical importance. Criticism Since 1950 When literary historians like Tillotson, Welsh, Eigner turn out also to be extraordinary critics, we have reason to rejoice, for nothing is more rewarding than good readings that also convey important historical knowledge. But there are first-rate works more purely devoted to readings, and it is here that the constraints of space are most acutely felt. Two excellent anthologies are John Gross and Gabriel Pearson, eds., Dickens and the Twentieth Century (Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1962) and Martin Price, ed., Dickens: A Collection of Critical Essays(Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1967). Harold Bloom, ed., Charles Dickens, Modern Critical Views (New York: Chelsea House, 1987) and Stephen Connor, ed., Charles Dickens, Longman Critical Readers (London: Longman, 1996) are fine and more recent. Lionel Trillingís essay on Little Dorrit in The Opposing Self (1955, reprinted New York: The Viking Press, 1959 and reprinted in both Fordís and Priceís collections) may well be the twentieth centuryís best single essay on Dickens. And J. Hillis Millerís Charles Dickens: The World of His Novels (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1958) may be the most-often cited book on Dickens of the past fifty years. Millerís phenomenological stance there evolves into a poststructuralist one in his important introduction to Bleak House for the Penguin edition, reprinted in Connorís collection. Steven http://dickens.ucsc.edu/bibliographies/dombeybiblio/DS_Biblio.html[11/22/11 10:42:15 AM]
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