A sketch of the life / Michael Allen - Dickens's use of the autobiographical fragment / Nicola Bradbury - "Faithfully yours, Charles Dickens" : the epistolary art of the inimitable / David Paroissien - Three major biographies / Catherine Peters - The 18th-century legacy / D. Monika Fludernik - Dickens and the gothic / Robert Mighall - Illustrations / Malcolm Andrews - The language of Dickens / Patricia Ingham - The novels and popular culture / Juliet John - Dickens as a reformer / Hugh Cunningham - Dickens's evolution as a journalist / John Drew - Dickens and gender / Natalie McKnight - Dickens and technology / Trey Philpotts - Dickens and America (1842) / Nancy Aycock Metz - Dickens, the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, and the Jamaican Rebellion / Leslie. G. Mitchell - Dickens and the uses of history / John Gardiner - Dickens as a Christian / Valentine Cunningham - Dickens and the law / Jan-Melissa Schramm - The Pickwick papers / David Parker - Oliver Twist / Brian Cheadle - Nicholas Nickleby / Stanley Friedman - The old curiosity shop / Gillian Ballinger - Barnaby Rudge / John Mee - Martin Chuzzlewit / Goldie Morgentaler - Dombey and Son / Brigid Lowe - David Copperfield / Gareth Cordery - Bleak house / Robert Tracy - Hard times / Anne Humphreys - Little Dorrit / Philip Davis - A tale of two cities / Paul Davis - Great expectations / Andrew L. Sanders - Our mutual friend / Leon Litvack - The mystery of Edwin Drood / Simon J. James - Dickens and the literary culture of the period / Michael Hollington - Dickens and criticism / Lyn Pikett - Casting long shadows / John O. Jordan