Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the texts
- 1 Introduction: the making and breaking of the family
- 2 Fractured families in the early novels: Oliver Twist and Dombey and Son
- 3 Dickens, Christmas and the family
- 4 Little Dorrit
- 5 A Tale of Two Cities
- 6 Great Expectations
- 7 Our Mutual Friend
- Postscript
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the texts
- 1 Introduction: the making and breaking of the family
- 2 Fractured families in the early novels: Oliver Twist and Dombey and Son
- 3 Dickens, Christmas and the family
- 4 Little Dorrit
- 5 A Tale of Two Cities
- 6 Great Expectations
- 7 Our Mutual Friend
- Postscript
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
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- Dickens and the Politics of the Family , pp. 231 - 233Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997