Table of Contents
List of Figures vii
Notes on Contributors ix
Acknowledgements xiii
Abbreviations xv
Introduction 1Leon Litvack and Nathalie Vanfasse
Part I Reconfiguring Dickens 13
1 Dickens’s Burial in Westminster Abbey: The Untold Story 15Leon Litvack
2 A Tale of Two Brothers: Reading Differently Dickens’s French Revolution 47Lillian Nayder
3 Parallel Lives, Converging Destinies: Charles Dickens and Thomas Babington Macaulay 61David Paroissien
4 Decent Restraint Spurned: Dickens, Penal Policy and Conflict at Cold Bath Fields Prison, 1846–1850 75Neil Davie
Part II Reincorporating Dickens 93
5 A Somatic Experience of Dickens’s Fiction 95Georges Letissier
6 Dickens and Lawrence: Mimicry, Totemism, Animism 113Michael Hollington
7 Wreckage and Ruin: Turner, Dickens, Ruskin 125Jeremy Tambling
8 Boz without Phiz: Reading Dickens with Different Illustrations 149Chris Louttit
Part III Resetting Dickens 165
9 Speculation and Silence: Reading Dickens by Instalment in Time, at the Time and for Our Time 167Pete Orford
10 Dickens Touches the Sky: Urban Exploration and London’s Greatest Author 185Gillian Piggott
11 Dickens as Icon and Antonomasia in Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate 207Francesca Orestano
12 From Movable Book to iPad App: Playing a Christmas Carol 223Claire Wood
Index 243