TY - BOOK AU - Patten, Robert L. AU - Jordan, John O.; Waters, Catherine TI - The Oxford handbook of Charles Dickens T2 - Oxford handbooks SN - 9780192855718 U1 - 823.8 PB - Oxford University Press, Oxford: 2021 KW - Literature KW - Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Criticism and interpretation N2 - This Handbook is a comprehensive and up-to-date collection on Dickens's life and works. It includes original chapters on all of Dickens's writing and new considerations of his contexts, from the social, political, and economic to the scientific, commercial, and religious. The contributions speak in new ways about his depictions of families, environmental degradation, and improvements of the industrial age, as well as the law, charity, and communications. ER -