Introduction / by Robert Giddings
Literature's "Eternal duties" : Dickens' professional creed / by David Paroissien
The politics of Barnaby Rudge / Thomas J. Rice
The crowd in Dickens / by David Craig
Polyphony and problematic in Hard times / by Roger Fowler
Charles Dickens : the solo performer / by David Ponting
Adapting Nickleby / by David Edgar
Dickens and films : 101 uses of a dead author / by Mike Poole
Circulation, interchange, stoppage : Dickens and social progress / by David Trotter
The other portion of Bleak House / by Bert G. Hornback
Dickens and Dostoyevsky : the technique of reverse influence / by Loralee MacPike
Hidden rivalries in Victorian fiction : the case of the two Esthers / by Jerome Meckier.