The Dickens Checklist

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• The Dickens Checklist
• Dominic Rainsford (bio)

The Dickens Checklist, recording new publications, doctoral dissertations, and online resources of significance for Dickens studies, appears in each issue of the journal. A cumulative cross-referenced edition of the Checklist, consisting of listings since vol. 37, no. 1 (March 2020), is available at dickenssociety.org, and is updated once a year.

Dominic Rainsford Aarhus University Dominic Rainsford

Dominic Rainsford is Professor of Literature in English at Aarhus University. His recent work on Dickens includes "1827: Real, Fictional, and Mythic Time in The Pickwick Papers," in From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria, vol. 7 (U of Warsaw P, 2021) and "Political Art and the Art of Politics" in The Edinburgh Companion to Dickens and the Arts (Edinburgh UP, 2024).

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Dickens, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. Edited by Elizabeth James and Joel J. Brattin, with J. H. Alexander, Oxford UP, 2024. 2 vols. The Oxford Edition of Charles Dickens.

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Secondary Sources: Biography and Criticism

Allen, Michael. The Personal History of Charles Dickens. Independently published, 2023, www.amazon.co.uk/personal-history-Charles-Dickens/dp/B0CMP7RWHX.

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Barrios, Jacqueline. "Novel Wayfinding: Litlabs and the Activism of Place." Victorianist Activism: Past, Present, and Future, special issue of Victorian Literature and Culture, vol. 51, no. 4, Winter 2023, pp. 613–28. [DC]

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Berensmeyer, Ingo. Author Fictions: Narrative Representations of Literary Authorship Since 1800. Walter de Gryter, 2023. [Ch. 4: "Compromise Formation in the English Literary Bildungsroman"] [DC]

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Bodenheimer, Rosemarie, and Philip Davis. In Dialogue with Dickens: The Mind of the Heart. Oxford UP, 2024.

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Courtemanche, Eleanor. "Payback Time: Dickens and Revolution." Victorian Studies, vol. 65, no. 3, Spring 2023, pp. 425–33.

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Dickens Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 1, Mar. 2024. [Michelle Allen-Emerson and Annette Federico, "From the Guest Editors: Dickens and His Publics," pp. 6–10; Rosemarie Bodenheimer and Philip Davis, "Dickensian Dimensions: A Transatlantic Dialogue," pp. 11–21; Kirsten Andersen, "Big Novels for Little Folks: Dickens Adapted, Abridged, and Excerpted for Young Readers," pp. 22–34; Jude Piesse, "Done with Dickens," pp. 35–42; Mary Mullen, "Full Havisham Effect," pp. 43–54; Sean Grass, "Bent and Broken," pp. 54–64; Eric. G. Lorentzen, "A Wisdom of the Head and a Wisdom of the Heart: Dickens, Disney, and Popular Culture," pp. 65–79; Marcela Santos Brigida, "Teaching and Reading Dickens in Brazil: A Tale of Two Cities as a Case Study," pp. 80–95; Elizabeth Bridgham, "'Cancelled' by the Revolution?: The Limits of Celebrity in A Tale of Two Cities," pp. 96–108; Natalie McKnight, "Hair Apparent; or, Dickens's Public Hair," pp. 109–19; Leslie S. Simon, review of The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature, by Renée Fox, pp. 120–24; Nathalie Vanfasse, review of Dickens and Travel: The Start of Modern Travel Writing, by Lucinda Hawksley, pp. 125–27; Dominic Rainsford, review of Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain, by Lawrence Goldman, pp. 127–32; Dominic Rainsford, "The Dickens Checklist," pp. 138–42.]

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Dickens Studies Annual, vol. 54, no. 2, 2023. [Peter Katz, "Speculative Capital, Speculative Reading: The Materialist Ethics of Fiction in Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend and The Pickwick Papers," pp. 121–46; Alexander Lynch, "Figuring Tough Subjects: Vague Labor and Narratorial Detection in Bleak House," pp. 147–75; Natalie McKnight, "Interview with Michael Hollington, the Anti-Specialist," pp. 176–87; Paris Shih, "The Queer Lives of Victorian Feminist Criticism," pp. 188–211; Tamara S. Wagner, "Noncanonical Victorian Women Novelists in the Twenty-First Century: Reconsidering Recovery Work," pp. 212–28; Emily Bell, "Recent Dickens Studies 2021," pp. 229–75.]

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Dickens Studies Annual, vol. 55, no. 1, 2023. [The Editors, "Introduction," pp. v–vi; Kari Daly, "Fearing the World Too Much: Another View of Ebenezer Scrooge," pp. 1–19; Jack Fox-Williams, "'I have not a word about my own...