The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens
Edited by Robert L. Patten, John O. Jordan, and Catherine Waters
Author Information
Edited by Robert L. Patten, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, John O. Jordan, Research Professor of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz and Director, The Dickens Project, and Catherine Waters, Professor of Victorian Literature and Print Culture, University of Kent
Robert L. Patten writes primarily about Victorian literature, graphic arts, and print culture. He has co-edited volumes of essays on Dickens with John O. Jordan (Literature in the Marketplace, Cambridge, 1995) and John Bowen (Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies, Palgrave, 2006). His books on Dickens include Charles Dickens and His Publishers (Oxford, 1978; 2nd edn. enlarged, 2017) and the Colby prize winning Charles Dickens and "Boz": The Birth of the Industrial-Age Author, Cambridge, 2012). His two-volume biography, George Cruikshank's Life, Times, and Art (Rutgers, 1992, 1996) was named the best biography of the 1990s by the Guardian. And for the Ashgate Library of Essays on Charles Dickens, a 6-volume series edited by Catherine Waters, he edited the volume on Dickens and Victorian Print Culture (2012).
John O. Jordan is Research Professor of Literature and Director of the Dickens Project at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Supposing Bleak House (U if Virginia Press, 2011). He edited The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens (2001) and has co-edited several essay collections on Victorian Literature and on Dickens, most recently Global Dickens (Ashgate 2012).
Catherine Waters is Professor of Victorian Literature and Print Culture at the University of Kent. She is the author of Dickens and the Politics of the Family (Cambridge UP 1997) and Commodity Culture in Dickens's Household Words: The Social Life of Goods (Ashgate 2008). She is series editor of the 6-volume collection, A Library of Essays on Charles Dickens (Ashgate 2012) and has co-edited several essay collections devoted to Dickens, the most recent being Dickens and the Imagined Child, co-edited with Peter Merchant (Ashgate 2015). She is a member of the editorial advisory board of the Dickens Journals Online project and a vice-president of the Canterbury branch of the Dickens Fellowship.
Contributors:
James Eli Adams, Columbia University
Chip Badley, University of California, Santa Barbara
Galia Benziman, Open University of Israel
Rosemarie Bodenheimer, Boston College
John Bowen, University of York
Logan Delano Browning, Rice University
James Buzard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ayse Çelikkol, Bilkent University
Philip Davis, University of Liverpool
Ian Duncan, University of California, Berkeley
Mark Eslick, University of Brighton
Kate Flint, University of Southern California
Regenia Gagnier, University of Exeter
Michal Peled Ginsburg, Northwestern University
Ruth Glancy, Concordia University of Edmonton
John Glavin, Georgetown University
Jennifer Gribble, University of Sydney
Helen Groth, University of New South Wales
Mary Hammond, University of Southampton
Molly Clark Hillard, Seattle University
Michael Hollington, University of Kent
Juliet John, Royal Holloway, University of London
John O. Jordan, University of California, Santa Cruz
Leon Litvack, Queen's University Belfast
Allen MacDuffie, University of Texas at Austin
Jennifer McDonell, University of New England
Hazel Mackenzie, University of Buckingham
Richard Menke, University of Georgia
Helena Michie, Rice University
Francesca Orestano, University of Milan
Wendy Parkins, University of Kent
David Paroissien, Buckingham University
Robert L. Patten, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Paul Schlicke, University of Aberdeen
Grahame Smith, University of Stirling
Jonathan Smith, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Tyson Stolte, New Mexico State University
Jeremy Tambling
Robert Tracy, University of California, Berkeley
Daniel Tyler, University of Cambridge
Chris R. Vanden Bossche, University of Notre Dame
Nathalie Vanfasse, Aix-Marseille Université
Jon Michael Varese, Dickens Project
David Vincent, University of Cambridge
Catherine Waters, University of Kent
Sharon Aronofsky Weltman, Louisiana State University
Tony Williamsm, University of Buckingham
Sarah Winter, University of Connecticut
Claire Wood, University of Leicester
Kay Young, University of California Santa Barbara
Paul Young, University of Exeter
