Preface; Part I. Life and Afterlife: 1. The life of Dickens 1: before Ellen Ternan John Bowen; 2. The life of Dickens 2: after Ellen Ternan John Bowen; 3. Dickens's lives Michael Slater; 4. Victorian stage adaptations and novel appropriations Anne Humpherys; 5. Reviewing Dickens in the Victorian periodical press John Drew; 6. The European context Michael Hollington; 7. Major twentieth-century critical responses Toru Sasaki; 8. Modern stage adaptations Tony Williams; 9. Modern screen adaptations Toru Sasaki; 10. The heritage industry Juliet John; 11. Neo-Victorian Dickens Cora Kaplan; Part II. Social and Cultural Contexts: 12. Popular culture Paul Schlicke; 13. The rise of celebrity culture Joss Marsh; 14. The newspaper and periodical market John Drew; 15. Authorship and the professional writer Florian Schweizer; 16. The theatre Marty Gould; 17. Melodrama Juliet John; 18. The bildungsroman Florian Schweizer; 19. Visual culture Kate Flint; 20. The historical novel Ian Duncan; 21. The illustrated novel Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge; 22. Christmas Sally Ledger; 23. Childhood Holly Furneaux; 24. Work Martin Danahay; [...]ope Ruth Livesey; 26. The Victorians and America Ella Dzelzainis; 27. Educating the Victorians Patrick Brantlinger; 28. London Anne Humphereys; 29. Politics Michael Sanders; 30. Political economy Paul Young; 31. The aristocracy Andrew Sanders; 32. The middle classes Priti Joshi; 33. Urban migration and mobility Josephine McDonagh; 34. Financial markets and the banking system Francis O'Gorman; 35. Empires and colonies Grace Moore; 36. Race Priti Joshi; 37. Crime Anne Schwan; 38. The law Jan-Melissa Schramm; 39. Religion Emma Mason; 40. Science James Mussell; 41. Transport Jonathan Grossman; 42. Social hygiene, illness and disease Janis McLarren Caldwell; 43. Domesticity Catherine Waters; 44. Sexuality Holly Furneaux; 45. Gender identities Catherine Waters; Further reading; Index.