This text looks at the author as a Victorian man of letters and explores hiscultural and critical impact both on the definition of the novel in the 19thcentury ... » 

This text looks at the author as a Victorian man of letters and explores hiscultural and critical impact both on the definition of the novel in the 19thcentury and the subsequent development of the form in the 20th. It examines thefull spectrum of Dickenss writing including his journalism work as an editorof periodicals sketches and stories placing his work in its contemporarycontext as well as reassessing it in the light of late modernpostmodernrereadings. «