Nicholas Nickleby Selected Bibliography 2006

The following works are particularly recommended.

John Bowen, Other Dickens: Pickwick to Chuzzlewit.
Joseph Childers, "Nicholas Nickleby's Problem of Doux Commerce."
Juliet John, Dickens's Villains: Melodrama, Character, Popular Culture.
Sylvia Manning, "Nicholas Nickleby: Parody on the Plains of Syria."
Steven Marcus, Dickens: From Pickwick to Dombey.
Helena Michie, "The Avuncular and Beyond: Family Melodrama in Nicholas Nickleby"
Paul Schlicke, Dickens and Popular Entertainment
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Barnard, Robert. Imagery and Theme in the Novels of Dickens. New York: Humanities Press, 1974.
Bergonzi, Bernard. "Nicholas Nickleby." in Dickens and the Twentieth Century. Ed. John Gross and Gabriel Pearson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1962, 65-76.
Bock, Carol A.. "Violence and the Fictional Modes of Nicholas Nickleby." Massachusetts Studies in English 10 (1985): 87-101.
Bowen, John. "Performing Business, Training Ghosts: Transcoding Nickleby." ELH 63.1 (1996): 153-75.
*---.Other Dickens : Pickwick to Chuzzlewit. Oxford, U.K.; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000, 107-131.
Canning, Albert S. G. Dickens and Thackeray Studied in Three Novels. Port Washington: Kennikat Press, 1967.
Carey, John. The Violent Effigy. London: Faber and Faber, 1973.
Carter, Archer. "The World of Squeers and the World of Crummles." The Dickensian 58 (1962): 50-53.
Caserio, Robert L. Plot, Story, and the Novel: From Dickens and Poe to the Modern Period. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979.
Chandler, David. "Dickens on Wordsworth: Nicholas Nickleby and the Copyright Question." English Language Notes 41.1 (2003): 62-9.
*Childers, Joseph W. "Nicholas Nickleby's Problem of Doux Commerce." Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction 25 (1996): 49-65.
Chittick, Kathryn. The Critical Reception of Charles Dickens: 1833-1841. New York: Garland, 1989.
---. Dickens and the 1830s. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Cipar, Mary Cleopha. "Picaresque Characteristics in Nicholas Nickleby." The Dickensian 84 (1988): 43-46.
Clark, Cumberland. Charles Dickens and the Yorkshire Schools. London: Chiswick Press, 1918. (Rpt. London: Folcraft Library Editions, 1975.)
Cohen, Jane R. Charles Dickens and His Original Illustrators. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1980.
Collins, Philip. Dickens and Education. London: Macmillan, 1963.
Cotsell, Michael. "Nicholas Nickleby: Dickens's First Young Man." Dickens Quarterly 5 (1988): 118-128.
Crowder, Ashby Bland. "A Source for Dickens's Sir Mulberry." Papers on Language and Literature 12 (1976): 105-109.
Curtis, Gerard. "Dickens in the Visual Market." Literature in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century British Publishing and Reading Practices. Ed. John O. Jordan and Robert L. Patten. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 213-249.
Davis, Earle. The Flint and the Flame: The Artistry of Charles Dickens. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1963.
Easson, Angus. "Emotion and Gesture in Nicholas Nickleby." Dickens Quarterly 5 (1988): 136-151.
Edgar, David. "Adapting Nickleby." The Changing World of Charles Dickens. Ed. Robert Giddings. Totowa: Barnes and Noble, 1983.
Edgecombe, Rodney Stenning. "Anti-Clerical Gothic: The Tale of the Sisters in Nicholas Nickleby." Modern Language Review 94.1 (1999): 1-10.
---. "Marring Curious Tales: Code-Crossing Irony in Nicholas Nickleby." Dickens Quarterly 18.1 (2001): 21-36.
Eigner, Edwin M. "The Absent Clown in Great Expectations." Dickens Studies Annual 11 (1983): 115-133.
---. The Dickens Pantomime. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.
Fenstermaker, John J. "Using Dickens to Market Morality: Popular Reading Materials in the Nickleby 'Advertiser'." Journal of Popular Culture 28.3 (1994): 9-17.
Ganz, Margaret. "Nicholas Nickleby: The Victories of Humor." Mosaic 9 (1976): 131-148.
Gilmour, Robin. "Between Two Worlds: Aristocracy and Gentility in Nicholas Nickleby." Dickens Quarterly 5 (1988): 110-118.
Glavin, John. After Dickens: Reading, Adaptation and Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Gold, Joseph. Charles Dickens: Radical Moralist. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1972.
Hannaford, Richard. "Fairy-tale Fantasy in Nicholas Nickleby." Criticism 16 (1974): 247-259.
Hecimovich, Greg. "Rehearsing Nicholas Nickleby: Dickens, Macready, and the Pantomime of Life." Victorian Newsletter 105 (2004): 16-24.
Hennelly, Mark M., Jr. "Courtly Wild Men and Carnivalesque Pig Women in Dickens and Hardy." Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction 26 (1998): 1-32.
Herst, Beth F. The Dickens Hero: Selfhood and Alienation in the Dickens World. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1990.
---. "Nicholas Nickleby and the Idea of the Hero." Dickens Quarterly 5 (1988): 128-136.
Hill, Thomas W. "Notes on Nicholas Nickleby." Dickensian 45 (1948/49): 98-102,163-166; 46 (1949/50): 42-48, 99-104.
Hollington, Michael. Dickens and the Grotesque. Totowa: Barnes and Noble, 1984.
---. "Nickleby, Flanerie, Reverie: The View from Cheerybles'." Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction 35 (2005): 21-43.
Holway, Tatiana M. "The Game of Speculation: Economics and Representation." Dickens Quarterly 9.3 (1992): 103-14.
Horne, Lewis. "Covenant and Power in Nicholas Nickleby; or, The Guidance of Newman Noggs." Papers on Language and Literature 25 (1989): 165-177.
Ingham, Patricia. Dickens, Women & Language. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1992.
Innes, Christopher. "Adapting Dickens to the Modern Eye: Nicholas Nickleby and Little Dorrit." Novel Images: Literature in Performance. Ed. Peter Reynolds. London: Routledge, 1993. 64-79.
*John, Juliet. Dickens's Villains: Melodrama, Character, Popular Culture. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Johnson, Edgar. Introduction. Nicholas Nickleby. By Charles Dickens. New York: Bantam, 1983.
---. "The Thieves' Den and the World." Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952.
Lucas, John. The Melancholy Man: A Study of Dickens's Novels. London: Methuen, 1970.
MacKay, Carol Hanbery. Dramatic Dickens. London: Macmillan, 1989.
---. "The Melodramatic Impulse in Nicholas Nickleby." Dickens Quarterly 5 (1988): 152-163.
Maclean, Robert Simpson. "The Case of the Silent Figure: A Phenomenal Art Mystery Revealed." The Dickensian 91, no. 2 (1995): 94-8.
Magnet, Myron. Dickens and the Social Order. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985.
Manning, Sylvia. "Dickens' Nickleby and Cavalcanti's: Comedy and Fear." Dickens Studies Annual 17 (1988): 47-66.
*---. "Nicholas Nickleby: Parody on the Plains of Syria." Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction 23 (1994): 73-92.
*Marcus, Steven. Dickens: From Pickwick to Dombey. New York: Basic, 1965, 92-128.
Marks, Patricia. "Time in Nicholas Nickleby." Victorian Newsletter 55 (1979): 23-26.
McKnight, Natalie. Idiots, Madmen, and Other Prisoners in Dickens. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1993.
McLean, Robert Simpson. "How 'the Infant Phenomenon' Began the World: The Managing of Jean Margaret Davenport (182?-1903)." The Dickensian 88.3 (1992): 133-53.
Meckier, Jerome. "The Faint Image of Eden: The Many Worlds of Nicholas Nickleby." Dickens Studies Annual 1 (1970): 129-146.
---. Hidden Rivalries in Victorian Fiction: Dickens, Realism, and Revaluation. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1987.
*Michie, Helena. "The Avuncular and Beyond: Family Melodrama in Nicholas Nickleby," Dickens Re-Figured: Bodies, Desires and Other Histories. Ed. John Shad. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996. 80-97.
Miller, J. Hillis. Charles Dickens: The World of His Novels. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958.
Monod, Sylvère. Dickens the Novelist. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968.
Musselwhite, David E. Partings Welded Together: Politics and Desire in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel. New York: Methuen, 1987.
Newman, S. J.. Dickens at Play. London: Macmillan, 1981.
Noffsinger, John W. "The Complexity of Ralph Nickleby." Dickens Studies Newsletter 5 (1974): 112-114.
Norrman, Ralf, and Jon Haarberg. Nature and Language: A Semiotic Study of Cucurbits in Literature. Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980.
Parker, David. The Doughty Street Novels: Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, Barnaby Rudge. New York, NY: AMS, 2002.
Paroissien, David. "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby: Alberto Cavalcanti Interprets Dickens." Hartford Studies in Literature 9 (1977): 17-28.
Patten, Robert L.. Charles Dickens and His Publishers. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. (Rpt. Santa Cruz: Dickens Project, 1991.)
---. "From Sketches to Nickleby." The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens. Ed. John O. Jordan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 16-33.
Purton, Valerie. "Dickens and 'Cheap Melodrama'." Études Anglaises 28 (1975): 22-26.
Reed, John R.. "Some Indefinable Resemblance: Moral Form in Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby." Papers on Language and Literature 3 (1967): 134-147.
Rem, Tore. "Melodrama and Parody: A Reading that Nicholas Nickleby Requires." English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature 77.3 (1996): 240-54.
---. "Playing Around with Melodrama: The Crummles Episode in Nicholas Nickleby." Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction 25 (1996): 267-85.
Russell, N.. "Nicholas Nickleby and the Commercial Crisis of 1825." The Dickensian 77 (1981): 144-150.
Schlicke, Paul. "Crummles Once More." The Dickensian 86 (1990): 3-16.
*---. Dickens and Popular Entertainment. Boston: Allen and Unwin, 1985, 33-86.
---. "Dickens in the Circus." Theatre Notebook: A Journal of the History and Technique of the British Theatre 47.1 (1993): 3-19.
Stratmann, Gerd. "Re-Telling Stories on the Stage: The Nicholas Nickleby Production of the RSC (1980)." Word and Action in Drama: Studies in Honour of Hans-Jürgen Diller on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday. Ed. G. ünter Ahrends, et al. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher, 1994. 225-238.
Slater, Michael. "Appreciating Mrs. Nickleby." The Dickensian 71 (1975): 136-139.
---. "The Composition and Monthly Publication of Nicholas Nickleby." Nicholas Nickleby. By Charles Dickens. London: Scolar Press, 1973.
---. Dickens and Women. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1983.
Steig, Michael. Dickens and Phiz. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978.
Stone, Harry. Dickens and the Invisible World: Fairy-tales, Fantasy and Novel-Making. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1979.
Thompson, Leslie M. "Mrs. Nickleby's Monologue: The Dichotomy of Pessimism and Optimism in Nicholas Nickleby." Studies in the Novel 1 (1969): 222-229.
Trotter, David. “Dickens’s Idle Men.” Dickens Refigured: Bodies, Desires, and Other Histories. Ed. John Schad. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996.
Wilson, Angus. The World of Charles Dickens. New York: Viking Press, 1970.

Worth, George. Dickensian Melodrama. Lawrence: University of Kansas, 1978.

Editions of Nicholas Nickleby (1992 – present)

Carey, John. Introduction. Nicholas Nickleby. By Charles Dickens. New York: Knopf, 1993.
Ford, Mark. Ed. Nicholas Nickleby. By Charles Dickens; original illustrations by Hablot K. Browne ('Phiz'). London : Penguin Books, 1999. Reprinted with Chronology, 2003. [This is the recommended edition for the 2006 Dickens Universe]
Miller, Jill. Introduction. Nicholas Nickleby. By Charles Dickens. New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005.
Schlike, Paul. Ed. Nicholas Nickleby. By Charles Dickens. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Reissued as Oxford World’s Classics: 1998.

Films and Theatrical Adaptations

Nicholas Nickleby. Dir. Alberto Cavalcanti. Screenwriter John Dighton. Ealing Studios, 1947.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. Dir. Trevor Nunn. Adapted by David Edgar. Royal Shakespeare Company. Aldwych Theater, London. 5 June 1980.
Nicholas Nickleby. Director and Screenwriter. Douglas McGrath. United Artists Studios, 2002.

On-line Editions:

Nicholas Nickleby. Full text available through Project Gutenberg at the following address: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/967
Nicholas Nickleby. Full text available through Classic Reader at the following address: http://www.classicreader.com
Nicholas Nickleby. Transcribed from: The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. With illustrations. London : Chapman and Hall, 1839. xvi, 624 p. Cambridge [England]: Chadwyck-Healey Ltd (A Bell & Howell Information and Learning company), 2000. Available through subscribing libraries only
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