DICKENS STUDIES ANNUAL
Essays on Victorian Fiction

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Volume 25 (1996)

In the Bosom of the Family: The Wet Nurse, the Railroad, and Dombey and Son
LAURA C. BERRY

Mystification and the Mystery of Origins in Bleak House
BRIAN CHEADLE

Nicholas Nickleby's Problem of Doux Commerce
JOSEPH W. CHILDERS

A Recipe for Perversion: The Feminine Narrative Challenge in Bleak House
LUANN MCCRACKEN FLETCHER

The Hat, the Hook, the Eyes, the Teeth; Captain Cuttle, Mr. Carker, and Literacy
GILLIAN GANE

The Rhetoric of Reticence in John Forster's Life of Charles Dickens
ELIZABETH G. GITTER

Charles Reade's Hard Cash: Lunacy Reform Through Sensationalism
ANN GRIGSBY

Mindless Millinery: Catherine Gore and the Silver Fork Heroine
WINIFRED HUGHES

Louisa Gradgrind's Secret: Marriage and Divorce in Hard Times
ANNE HUMPHERYS

The Genesis of the Last Novel: The Mystery of Edwin Drood 
WENDY S. JACOBSON

Pip and Jane and Recovered Memories
JAMES KINCAID

Domesticating History: Revolution and Moral Management in A Tale of Two Cities
JOHN B. LAMB

"Your Love-Sick Pickwick": The Erotics of Service
BRIAN W. MCCUSKEY

Playing Around with Melodrama: The Crummles Episodes in Nicholas Nickleby
TORE REM

The Perfect Murder: Patterns of Repetition and Doubling in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White
SHIRLEY A. STAVE

Thackeray and Becky Sharp: Creating Women
JOHN WATSON

Recent Dickens Studies: 1994
JOEL J. BRATTIN