Charles Dickens

(1812-1870)

 

Internet Resources:  The Dickens Project

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BAKER, Christopher P. “Spirits of London Past.” The Australian Way 1 December 1995: 52-55.

BALLINGER, Gillian. "From Madmen to Vampires: Dickens's Gothic Law." (pp. 12-22). In Victorian Gothic, eds. Katherine Sayer & Rosemary Mitchell. Leeds, UK: Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies, Trinity and All Saints College, University of Leeds, 2003.

BARFOOT, C.C. “The Gist of the Gothic in English Fiction; or, Gothic and the Invasion of Boundaries” (pp. 159-72). In Exhibited by Candlelight: Sources and Developments in the Gothic Tradition, eds. Valeria Tinkler Viviani, Peter Davidson and Jane Stevenson. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995. 

COOLIDGE, Archibald C. Jr. “Charles Dickens and Mrs. Radcliffe: A Farewell to Wilkie Collins.” [GGI: 1128].

CORDERY, Gareth. “The Gothic and the Sentimental in Charles Dickens.” [GGI: 1129].

DENCE, Alexandra Charlotte. “The Nineteenth-Century Novel’s Divided Personality: Gothic Worlds in Dickens, Hardy, and James.” [GGII: 0658].

DUNN, Richard J. “Aspects of a Novelist’s Development: Dickens’s Mastery of Horror and Terror.” [GGI: 1130].

DUNN, Richard J. “Dickens’s Mastery of the Macabre.” [GGI: 11-31].

EDGECOMBE, Rodney Stenning. “Anticlerical Go-thic: The Tale of the Sisters in ‘Nicholas Nickleby.’” Modern Language Review 94 (1999): 1-10.

FISHER, Benjamin F. “Dickens, Charles” (pp. 45-47). In The Handbook to Gothic Literature, ed. Marie Mulvey-Roberts. New York: New York University Press, 1998.

FLOWER, Timothy F. “Charles Dickens and Gothic Fiction.” [GGI: 1132].

GREENMAN, David J. “Dickens’s Ultimate A-chievements in the Ghost Story: ‘To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt’ and “The Signalman.’” Dickensian 85 (1989): 40-48.

HARRIS, Jean Ambuter. “The Gothic Side of Familiar Things: Conscious Gothicism in Dickens’ Early Fiction.” [GGII: 0659].

HARRIS, Jean Ambuter. “‘But He Was His Father’: The Gothic and the Impostorious in Dickens’ Pickwick Papers.” [GGII: 0660].

HODGELL, Pat. “Charles Dickens’ Old Curiosity Shop: The Gothic Novel in Transition.” [GGII: 0661].

HOLLINGTON, Michael. “Boz’s Gothic Gar-goyles.” Dickens Quarterly 16:3 (1999): 160-77.

JACKSON, Rosemary. “Dickens and the Gothic Tradition.” [GGI: 1133].

JARRETT, David. “The Fall of the House of Clenham: Gothic Conventions in Little Dorrit.” [GGI: 1135].

JOHN, Juliet. “Melodramatic Poetics and the Gothic Villain: Interiority, Deviance, Emotion” (pp. 95-121). In Dickens’s Villains: Melodrama, Character, Popular Culture. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

KELLY, Patrick J. “The Way of the Labyrinth: Mystery and Detection in the Novels of Charles Dickens.” [GGI: 1137}.

KIRKPATRICK, Larry. “The Gothic Flame of Charles Dickens.” [GGI: 1138].

KOSTELNICK, Charles. “Dickens’s Quarrel with the Gothic: Ruskin, Durdles, and Edwin Drood.” [GGI: 1138A].

LOE, Thomas. Gothic Plot in Great Expectations.” [GGII: 0662].

MAXWELL, Richard. “Crowds and Creativity in The Old Curiosity Shop.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 78 (1979): 49-71.

MC MASTER, R.D. “Dickens and the Horrific.” [GGI: 1142].

MENGEL, Ewald. “The Structure and Meaning of Dickens’s ‘The Signalman.’” [GGII: 0663].

MYRICK, Patricia Lynn. “Gothic Perceptions of the Past in the Nineteenth Century Novel: Dickens, Hawthorne, Eliot, and James.” [GGII: 0664].

PHILLIPS, Walter. Dickens, Reade, and Collins, Sensation Novelists: A Study in the Conditions and Theories of Novel Writing in Victorian England. New York: Columbia University Press, 1919.

PRITCHARD, Allan. “The Urban Gothic of Bleak House.” [GGII: 0665].

RIDENHOUR, Jamieson. "'That Boney Light': The Bakhtinian Gothic of Our Mutual Friend." Dickens Quarterly 22:3 (2005): 153-71.

RONALD, Margaret A. “Dickens’ Gloomiest Gothic Castle.” [GGI: 1146].

SCHWARZBACH, Frederic. “A New Theatrical Source for Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities.” [GGII: 0666].

STABLEFORD, Brian. “DICKENS, Charles (John Huffam)” (pp. 181-84). In St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost, and Gothic Writers, ed. David Pringle. Detroit: St. James Press/Gale, 1998.

STONE, Harry. The Night Side of Dickens: Cannibalism, Passion, Necessity. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1994. 

SUCKSMITH, Harvey P. “The Secret of Immediacy: Dickens’s Debt to the Tale of Terror in Blackwood’s.” [GGI: 1148].

THIELE, David. “The ‘transcendent and immortal’ HEEP!“: Class Consciousness, Narrative Authority, and the Gothic in David Copperfield.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 42 (2000): 201-222.

THOMSON, Douglass H. “Charles Dickens.” (pp. 104-15). In Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide, eds. Douglass H. Thomson, Jack G. Voller and Frederick S. Frank.Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.

TRACY, Robert. “The Old Story and Inside Stories: Modish Fiction and Fictional Modes in Oliver Twist.” Dickens Studies Annual 17 (1988): 1-33.

TRACY, Robert. “Clock Work: The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge.” Dickens Studies Annual  30 (2001): 23-43. A source study that points out several Gothic features.

WOLFREYS, Julian. “‘I wants to make your flesh creep’: Notes Toward a Reading of the Comic-Gothic in Dickens” (pp. 31-59). In Victorian Gothic: Literary and Cultural Manifestations in the Nineteenth Century. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2000.

ZEMKA, Sue. “From the Punchmen to Pugin’s Gothics: The Broad Road to a Sentimental Death in The Old Curiosity Shop.” [GGII: 0667].