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Dickens, Charles

  1. In Alter, Robert. Imagined Cities. New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005. pp. 43-82.
    Criticism -- Works -- Cities and Towns in Literature -- Bleak House -- Our Mutual Friend

  2. In Auden, W. H. The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays. New York: Random House, [1962]. pp. 407-428.
    Criticism -- The Pickwick Papers

  3. In Beebe, Maurice. Ivory Towers and Sacred Founts: The Artists as Hero in Fiction from Goethe to Joyce. New York: New York University, 1964. pp. 88-97.
    Criticism -- David Copperfield

  4. In Bennett, James O'Donnell. Much Loved Books. New York : Liveright, c1927. pp. 135-140.
    Criticism -- David Copperfield

  5. In Bloom, Harold. The Western Canon. New York : Harcourt Brace, c1994. pp. 311-320.
    Criticism -- Bleak House

  6. In Boyd, Ernest. Literary Blasphemies. New York, Greenwood Press, 1969. pp. 136-162.
    Biography -- Criticism -- Works

  7. In Buckley, Jerome Hamilton. Season of Youth: The Bildungsroman from Dickens to Golding. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974. pp. 28-62.
    Criticism -- Works -- David Copperfield -- Great Expectations

  8. In Calder, Jenni. Women and Marriage in Victorian Fiction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. pp. 96-119.
    Criticism -- Works

  9. In Calvino, Italo. Why Read the Classics?. New York : Pantheon Books, c1999. pp. 145-150.
    Criticism -- Our Mutual Friend

  10. In Cecil, David. Early Victorian Novelists: Essays in Revaluation. London: Constable & Co., ltd., 1934. pp. 27-66.
    Criticism -- Works

  11. In Clayborough, Arthur. The Grotesque in English Literature. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965. pp. 201-251.
    Criticism -- Works

  12. In Colby, Robert A. Fiction with a Purpose: Major and Minor Nineteenth-Century Novels. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, [1967]. pp. 105-137.
    Criticism -- Oliver Twist

  13. In Collins, Norman. Facts of Fiction . New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., [c1933]. pp. 155-165.
    Criticism -- Works

  14. In Colmer, John. Coleridge to Catch-22: Images of Society. London: Macmillan, 1978. See index.
    Criticism -- Works -- Bleak House -- David Copperfield -- Great Expectations -- Hard Times -- Household Words -- Nicholas Nickleby -- Our Mutual Friend

  15. In Coveney, Peter. Poor Monkey: The Child in Literature. London: Rockliff, c1957. pp. 71-119.
    Criticism -- Works

  16. In Donovan, Robert Alan. The Shaping Vision: Imagination in the English Novel from Defoe to Dickens. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, [1966]. pp. 206-237.
    Criticism -- Bleak House

  17. In Drew, Elizabeth. The Novel: A Modern Guide to Fifteen English Masterpieces. Norton, [1964, c1963]. pp. 191-207.
    Criticism -- Great Expectations

  18. In Edgar, Pelham. The Art of the Novel. New York, Macmillan, 1933. pp. 117-124.
    Criticism -- Works

  19. Edgecombe, Rodney. "Middle Class-Erasures: The Decreations of Mrs. General and Mr. Podsnap." In Studies in the Novel, Volume XXXI, No. 3, Fall 1999. pp. 279-295
    Criticism -- Little Dorritt -- Our Mutual Friend

  20. In English Institute, and Pearce, Roy Harvey. Experience in the Novel: Selected Papers from the English Institute. New York: Columbia University Press, 1968. pp. 21-82, 107-132.
    Criticism -- Works -- David Copperfield

  21. In Fadiman, Clifton. Party of One: The Selected Writings of Clifton Fadiman. Cleveland: World Pub., [1955]. pp. 203-250.
    Biography -- Criticism -- Works

  22. In Fleishman, Avrom. The English Historical Novel. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1971. pp. 103-126.
    Criticism -- Works -- Barnaby Rudge -- A Tale of Two Cities

  23. In Fleishman, Avrom. Fiction and the Ways of Knowing: Essays on British Novels. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 1978. pp. 64-73.
    Criticism -- Little Dorrit

  24. Frank, Lawerence. "Dicken's A Tale of Two Cities: the Poetics of Impasse. In American Imago, Vol. 36, 1979, pp. 125-144.
    Criticism -- A Tale of Two Cities

  25. In Garrett, Peter K. Scene and Symbol from George Eliot to James Joyce: Studies in Changing Fictional Mode. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1969. pp. 46-56.
    Criticism -- Works

  26. In Gillie, Christopher. Character in English Literature. Barnes & Noble, [1965]. pp. 156-163.
    Criticism -- Great Expectations

  27. Gitter, Elisabeth. "The Power of Women's Hair in the Victorian Imagination." In PMLA, Vol. 99, 1984, pp. 943-946.
    Criticism -- A Tale of Two Cities

  28. In Goodin, George, ed. The English Novel in the Nineteenth Century: Essays on the Literary Mediation of Human Values . Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, [1972]. pp. 197-125.
    Criticism -- David Copperfield -- Little Dorrit

  29. Hamilton, J.F. "Dickens A Tale of Two Cities." Explicator, Vol. 53, No. 4, Summer 1995, pp. 204-208.
    Criticism -- A Tale of Two Cities

  30. In Harper, Howard M., and Edge, Charles, eds. The Classic British Novel. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, [1972]. pp. 85-102.
    Criticism -- David Copperfield

  31. In Hochman, Baruch. The Test of Character: From the Victorian Novel to the Modern. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses, c1983. pp. 72-90.
    Criticism -- Bleak House

  32. In Hollingsworth, Keith. The Newgate Novel, 1830-1847: Bulwer, Ainsworth, Dickens & Thackeray. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1963. pp. 111-131, 177-182, 224-228.
    Criticism -- Barnaby Rudge -- Oliver Twist

  33. In Howard, David, ed. Tradition and Tolerance in Nineteenth-Century Fiction. New York, Barnes & Noble, 1967. pp. 99-140.
    Criticism -- Dombey & Son

  34. In Howe, Irving. A Critic's Notebook. New York : Harcourt Brace, c1994. pp. 159-173..
    Criticism -- Works -- Bleak House -- Little Dorrit

  35. In Howe, Irving, ed. Modern Literary Criticism: An Anthology. Boston: Beacon Press, [1958]. pp. 112-124.
    Criticism -- Works

  36. Hutter, Albert. "Nation and Generation in A Tale of Two Cities." In PMLA, Vol. 93, 1978, pp. 448-462.
    Criticism -- A Tale of Two Cities

  37. In James, Henry. Selected Literary Criticism . New York, Horizon Press, 1963. pp. 6-10.
    Criticism -- Our Mutual Friend

  38. In Jenkins, Alice, ed. Rereading Victorian Fiction. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000. pp. 44-58, 173-188.
    Criticism -- Novels -- Great Expectations -- The Pickwick Papers

  39. In Karl, Frederick. A Reader's Guide to the Nineteenth Century British Novel. New York: Noonday Press, 1965, c1964. pp. 105-176.
    Criticism -- Works -- Bleak House -- Great Expectations

  40. In Kincaid, James R. Annoying the Victorians. New York : Routledge, 1995. pp. 21-90.
    Criticism -- Great Expectations -- Martin Chuzzlewit -- The Old Curiosity Shop -- The Pickwick Papers

  41. In Knoepflmacher, U. C. Laughter & Despair: Readings in Ten Novels of the Victorian Era. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1971. pp. 137-167.
    Criticism -- Our Mutual Friend

  42. In Kronenberger, Louis. Novelists on Novelists . Garden City, N.Y., Anchor Books, 1962. pp. 65-83.
    Criticism -- Works -- Characters and characteristics in literature

  43. In Kuhn, Reinhard. Corruption in Paradise: The Child in Western Literature. Hanover, N.H.: Published for Brown University Press by University Press of New England, c1982. pp. 67-76.
    Criticism -- Children in Literature -- Great Expectations -- Nicholas Nickelby -- Oliver Twist

  44. In Laird, John. Philosophical Incursions into English Literature. New York: Russell & Russell, 1962. pp. 136-160.
    Criticism -- Works

  45. In Leavis, F. R. The Great Tradition: George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad. New York: New York University Press, 1963. pp. 227-248.
    Criticism -- Hard Times

  46. In Legouis, Emile, and Cazamian, Louis François. A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660); Modern Times (1660-1970). London: Dent, 1971. pp. 1129-1137.
    Criticism -- Works

  47. In Levy, Anita Reproductive Urges. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1999. pp. 93-107, plus see index.
    Criticism -- Dombey and Son

  48. In Lodge, David. Language of Fiction . London, Routledge & K. Paul, 1966. pp. 144-163.
    Criticism -- Hard Times

  49. In McCullough, Bruce. Representative English Novelists: Defoe to Conrad. New York, London: Harper & Brothers, [1946]. pp. 131-151.
    Criticism -- David Copperfield

  50. In Maugham, W. Somerset. The Art of Fiction: An Introduction to Ten Novels and Their Authors. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1955, [c1954]. pp. 135-162.
    Criticism -- David Copperfield

  51. In Maugham, W. Somerset. Great Novelists and Their Novels: Essays on the Ten Greatest Novels of the World, and the Men and Women Who Wrote Them. Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., [c1948]. pp. 159-184.
    Criticism -- David Copperfield

  52. In Milbank, Alison. Daughters of the House. Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan, 1992. pp. 80-139.
    Criticism -- Bleak House -- Great Expectations -- Housekeepers Fiction -- Little Dorrit

  53. In Nabokov, Vladimir. Lectures on Literature. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; Columbia, S.C.: B. Clark. pp. 63-124.
    Criticism -- Bleak House

  54. In O'Connor, Frank. The Mirror in the Roadway . New York, Knopf, 1956. pp. 70-82.
    Criticism -- Works --

  55. O'Mealy, Joseph. "Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities. In Explicator, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 10-12.
    Criticism -- A Tale of Two Cities

  56. In Orel, Harold. The Victorian Short Story. Cambridge, New York : Cambridge University Press, 1986. pp. 56-68.
    Criticism -- Works -- Short Stories --

  57. In Parrinder, Patrick Nation and Novel : the English Novel from its Origins to the Present Day. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. pp. 213-231, plus see index.
    Criticism -- Novels -- Our Mutual Friend

  58. In Praz, Mario. The Hero in Eclipse in Victorian Fiction. Oxford University Press, 1956. pp. 127-188.
    Criticism -- Works

  59. In Pritchett, V. S. Books in General. London: Chatto & Windus, 1953. pp. 191-196.
    Criticism -- Oliver Twist

  60. In Pritchett, V. S. The Pritchett Century . New York : Modern Library, 1997. pp. 573-578.
    Criticism -- The Mystery of Edwin Drood

  61. In Ragussis, Michael. Acts of Naming: The Family Plot in Fiction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. pp. 35-47, 87-109.
    Criticism -- Works -- Bleak House -- Oliver Twist

  62. In Rathburn, Robert C., and Steinmann, Martin, Jr. From Jane Austen to Joseph Conrad: Essays Collected in Memory of James T. Hillhouse. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, [1958]. pp. 82-105.
    Criticism -- Works -- Bleak House

  63. In Rexroth, Kenneth. More Classics Revisited . New York : New Directions, c1986. pp. 100-103.
    Criticism -- Pickwick Papers

  64. In Santayana, George Essays in Literary Criticism of George Santayana. New York: Scribner, 1956. pp. 210-223.
    Criticism -- Works

  65. In Shapiro, Charles, ed. Twelve Original Essays on Great English Novels. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1960. pp. 103-124.
    Criticism -- Great Expectations

  66. Stange, G. Robert. "Dickens and the Fiery Past: A Tale of Two Cities Reconsidered." English Journal, Vol. 44, 1957, pp. 381-390.
    Criticism -- A Tale of Two Cities

  67. In Sussman, Herbert L. Victorians and the Machine . Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1968. pp. 41-75.
    Criticism -- Works -- Dombey and Son -- Hard Times -- The Old Curiosity Shop

  68. In Swinden, Patrick. Unofficial Selves. New York, Barnes & Noble, 1973. pp. 27-42.
    Criticism -- Works -- Bleak House -- David Copperfield -- Great Expectations -- Little Dorrit

  69. In Taylor, Anne Robinson. Male Novelists and Their Female voices. Troy, N.Y.: Whitston Pub. Co., 1981. pp. 121-155, plus see index.
    Criticism -- Works -- Women in Literature -- Bleak House -- David Copperfield -- Great Expectations -- Oliver Twist

  70. In Trilling, Lionel, 1905-1975. The Opposing Self: Nine Essays in Criticism. New York: Viking Press, 1959,c1955. pp. 44-57.
    Criticism -- Little Dorrit

  71. In Van Ghent, Dorothy. The English Novel: Form and Function. New York, Rinehart, 1953. pp. 125-138.
    Criticism -- Great Expectations

  72. In Vickery, John B., ed. Myth and Literature: Contemporary Theory and Practice. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1966. pp. 265-275.
    Criticism -- Myth in Literature -- David Copperfield -- Great Expectations -- Our Mutual Friend

  73. In Wagenknecht, Edward. Cavalcade of the English Novel. New York, Holt, 1954. pp. 213-233.
    Biography -- Criticism -- Works

  74. In Watt, Ian. Literal Imagination. Palo Alto, Calif. : Society for the Promotion of Science and Scholarship ; Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, 2002. pp. 159-170.
    Criticism -- Works -- Food in Literature

  75. In Waugh, Arthur. Tradition and Change. Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press, 1969. pp. 131-137, 157-179.
    Criticism -- Poetry -- Love in Literature -- David Copperfield -- Dombey and Son -- Little Dorrit

  76. In Weinstein, Arnold. A Scream Goes Through the House. New York : Random House, c2003. pp. 243-252.
    Criticism -- Bleak House

  77. In Weygandt, Cornelius. Century of the English Novel. Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press, 1968. pp. 63-82.
    Criticism -- Novels

  78. In Wilson, Angus. Diversity and Depth in Fiction . New York: Viking Press, 1984, c1983. pp. 55-63, plus see index.
    Criticism -- Works

  79. In Wilson, Edmund. The Wound and the Bow. Athens : Ohio University Press, 1997. pp. 3-85.
    Criticism -- Works

  80. In Woolf, Virginia. Collected Essays, Volume 1. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967. pp. 191-195.
    Criticism -- David Copperfield

  81. In Young, Arlene. Culture, Class and Gender in the Victorian Novel. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999. pp. 69-72, 73-86, plus see index.
    Criticism -- Works

  82. In Zabel, Morton. Craft and Character: Texts, Methods and Vocation in Modern Fiction. New York, Viking Press, 1957. pp. 49-69.
    Criticism -- A Tale of Two Cities

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