Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens

<em>The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens</em> 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. His treatment of gender his mastery of prose in all its varieties and genres and his range of affects and dramatization all come under stimulating reconsideration. His understanding of British history of empire and colonization of his own nation and foreign ones and of selfhood and otherness like all the other topics is explained in terms easy to comprehend and profoundly relevant to global modernity.<br>