Emily Bell (ed). Dickens After Dickens

Abstract

A hundred and fifty years after his demise, Charles Dickens still seems to be ‘here and not here: a Shadow’ (John viii). This anniversary marks a new threshold in Dickens studies as scholars seem more than ever interested in the significance of Dickens for contemporary society. Emily Bell’s collection of essays, Dickens After Dickens, presents us with a multifaceted exploration of this phenomenon. The book is a compound of some of the best papers that were first delivered at the ‘After Dicken...