In this important new anthology, Steven Connor gathers together examples of the range of new critical approaches to Dickens, and includes selections from the work of some of the most original and distinguished critics: Mikhail Bakhtin, Peter Brooks, Terry Eagleton, D A Miller, J Hillis Miller and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, along with an essay by Steven Connor himself written specially for this volume. The selection is designed not only to represent the full range and energy of approaches to Dickens, but also to allow the reader to compare and contrast different treatments of particular Dickens novels, such as Bleak House, Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend.

1. Introduction. 2. Peter Brooks: Repitition, Repression and Return: The Plotting of Great Expectations 3. J Hillis Miller: Dicken's Bleak House. 4. Christoppher D Morris: The Bad Faith of Pip's Bad Faith: Deconstructing Great Expectations. 5. Mikhail Bakhtin: Heteroglossia in the Novel: Little Dorrit. 6. Roger Fowler: Polyphony and Problematic in Hard Times. 7. .Jeremy Tambling: Prison-Bound: Dickens and Foucault Great Expectations. 8. D A Miller: Discipline in Different Voices: Bureaucracy, Police, Family and Bleak House. 9. Terry Eagleton: Ideology and Literary Form: Charles Dickens. 10. Jane Ferguson Carr: Writing as a Woman: Dickens, Hard Times and Feminine Discourses. 11. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: Homophobia, Misogyny and Capital: Our Mutual Friend. 12. John Kucich: Repression and Representation: Dicken's General Economy, Our Mutual Friend. 13. Steven Connor Space, Place and the Body of Riot in Barnaby Rudge. Further Reading. Index