Books written by John O. Jordan
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The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens
In the summer of 1857 Dickens met the Ternan family of actresses when they took part in a Manchester performance of his play ... 46 Michael Slater, The Great Charles Dickens Scandal (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012).
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The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens
The essays cover the whole range of Dickens's writing, from Sketches by Boz through The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Separate chapters address important thematic topics: childhood, the city, and domestic ideology.
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The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens
Hugh Craig and Arthur F. Kinney, Shakespeare, Computers, and the Mystery of Authorship (Cambridge: Cambridge University ... 'To UNKNOWN CORRESPONDENT, [1850–8 JUNE 1870]', The Charles Dickens Letters Project, accessed 20 August 2016, ...
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Supposing Bleak House
Supposing "Bleak House" is an extended meditation on what many consider to be Dickens’s and nineteenth-century England’s greatest work of narrative fiction.
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Approaches to Teaching Dickens's Bleak House
A central text both in Dickens's career and in the history of the novel itself, Bleak House provides students and teachers occasion to discuss Victorian social concerns involving law, crime,...
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The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens
The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens offers a valuable introduction to Dickens for students and general readers.
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Literature in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century British Publishing and Reading Practices
This wide-ranging and innovative collection of essays addresses important issues in cultural studies and the history of the book.
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Victorian Literature and the Victorian Visual Imagination
Nineteenth-century British culture frequently represented the eye as the preeminent organ of truth. These essays explore the relationship between the verbal and the visual in the Victorian imagination.
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Victorian Literature and the Victorian Visual Imagination
Nineteenth-century British culture frequently represented the eye as the preeminent organ of truth. These essays explore the relationship between the verbal and the visual in the Victorian imagination.