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Index
Coverpage
Halftitle page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Preface
Notes on references
Part I: Life and Afterlife
1 The life of Dickens 1: before Ellen Ternan
2 The life of Dickens 2: after Ellen Ternan
3 Dickens’s lives
4 Victorian stage adaptations and novel appropriations
5 Reviewing Dickens in the Victorian periodical press
6 The European context
7 Major twentieth-century critical responses
8 Modern stage adaptations
9 Modern screen adaptations
10 The heritage industry
11 Neo-Victorian Dickens
Part II: Social and Cultural Contexts
12 Popular culture
13 The rise of celebrity culture
14 The newspaper and periodical market
15 Authorship and the professional writer
16 The theatre
17 Melodrama
18 The Bildungsroman
19 Visual culture
20 The historical novel
21 The illustrated novel
22 Christmas
23 Childhood
24 Work
25 Europe
26 The Victorians and America
27 Educating the Victorians
28 London
29 Politics
30 Political economy
31 The aristocracy
32 The middle classes
33 Urban migration and mobility
34 Financial markets and the banking system
35 Empires and colonies
36 Race
37 Crime
38 The law
39 Religion
40 Science
41 Transport
42 Illness, disease and social hygiene
43 Domesticity
44 Sexuality
45 Gender identities
Further reading
Index
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