DICKENS STUDIES ANNUAL
Essays on Victorian Fiction

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Volume 17 (1988)

"The Old Story" and Inside Stories: Modish Fiction and Fictional Modes in Oliver Twist
ROBERT TRACY

Mr. Wopsle's Hamlet: "Something Too Much of This."
GEORGE J. WORTH

Dickens' Nickleby and Cavalanti's: Comedy and Fear
SYLVIA MANNING

The Shaping of The Battle of Life: Dickens' Manuscript Revisions
RUTH GLANCY

Hard Times and Dickens' Concept of Imagination
ROBERT HIGBIE

A Considerate Ghost: George Rouncewell in Bleak House
STANLEY FRIEDMAN

Designs in Disorder: The Language of Death in Our Mutual Friend
PATRICK McCARTHY

Social Harmony and Dickens' Revolutionary Cookery
JAMES E. MARLOW

"Where There's A Will..."
SYLVERE MONOD

Dickens in Poland
DANIELA BIELECKA

Barmecide Feasts: Ritual, Narrative, and the Victorian Novel
SARAH GILEAD

Recent Studies in Thomas Hardy's Fiction: l980-86
DALE KRAMER

Contemporary Biographers of Nineteenth Century Subjects: The Novelists
FREDERICK R. KARL

Recent Dickens Studies: 1986
DAVID PAROISSIEN