DICKENS QUARTERLY

June 2006

Volume XXIII Number 2

ARTICLES

Paul Marchbanks: From Caricature to Character: The Intellectually Disabled in Dickens’s Novels (Part Two) 67

Mark Willis: Charles Dickens and Fictions of the Crowd 85

Arthur J. Cox: The Drood Remains Revisted: “First Fancy” 108


REVIEWS

Dominic Rainsford on Terry Eagleton: The English Novel: An Introduction 121

Jeremy Tambling on Robert Alter: Imagined Cities: Urban Experience and the Language of the Novel 125

Natalie McKnight on Britta Zangen: Our Daughters Must be Wives: Marriage Young Women in the Novels of Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy 127

David Paroissien on George Gissing: The Collected Works of George Gissing on Charles Dickens 129


ANNOUNCEMENTS 134

THE DICKENS CHECKLIST — Elizabeth Bridgham 138

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 144





Dickens Quarterly is produced for the Dickens Society with assistance from the English Departments of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the College of General Studies, Boston University. Printed in Northampton, Massachusetts by Tiger Press.

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