A sketch of the life / Michael Allen -- Dickens's use of the autobiographical fragment / Nicola Bradbury -- "Faithfully yours, Charles Dickens" : the epistolary art of the inimitable / David Paroissien -- Three major biographies / Catherine Peters -- Dickens's eighteenth-century legacy / Monika Fludernik -- Dickens and the city / Ushashi Dasgupta -- Illustrations / Malcolm Andrews -- Dickens and serialization / Pete Orford -- The language of Dickens / Patricia Ingham -- Dickens and Christianity / Valentine Cunningham -- Dickens and the uses of history / John Gardiner -- From Penny-a-liner to media mogul : Dickens's evolution as a journalist / John Drew -- Dickens and gender / Sarah Gates -- Dickens and technology / Trey Philpotts -- Dickens and America (1842) / Nancy Aycock Metz -- Dickens as a reformer / Hugh Cunningham -- Dickens and government ineptitude abroad, 1854-1865 / Leslie Mitchell -- Dickens and Europe / Luisa Villa -- Dickens and the law / Jan-Melissa Schramm -- Sketches by Boz / Paul Schlicke -- The Pickwick papers / Adam Abraham -- Oliver Twist / Brian Cheadle -- Nicholas Nickleby / Michelle Allen-Emerson -- The old curiosity shop / Hazel Mackenzie -- Barnaby Rudge / Jon Mee -- Martin Chuzzlewit / Goldie Morgentaler -- Christmas books / Leon Litvack -- Dombey and Son / Nathalie Vanfasse -- David Copperfield / Bradley Deane -- Bleak house / Robert Tracy -- Hard times / Anne Humpherys -- Little Dorrit / Philip Davis -- A tale of two cities / Sara Thornton -- Great expectations / Andrew Sanders -- Our mutual friend / Leon Litvack -- The mystery of Edwin Drood / Yael Halevi-Wise -- Dickens and the literary culture of the period / Michael Hollington -- Dickens before modernism / Yael Levin -- Global Dickens / John O. Jordan -- Dickens now : adaptations and representations, 2012-2020 / Emily Middleton.