Charles Dickens Project

Major Works

• The Pickwick Papers (1836-37)
• Adventures of Oliver Twist, or The parish boy's progress (1837-39)
• Nicholas Nickleby (1838-39)
• A Christmas carol (1843)
• The life and adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-44)
• Dombey and son (1846-48)
• David Copperfield (1849-50)
• Bleak house (1852-53)
• Hard times: for these times (1854)
• Little dorrit (1855-57)
• A Tale of two cities (1859)
• Great expectations (1860-61)

Annotated Bibliography

• Bigelow, Gordon, 1963-. 2000. Market indicators: Banking and domesticity in dickens's bleak house. ELH 67, (2): 589-615.

In "Market Indicators" (2000), Gordon Bigelow argues that the metaphors Charles Dickens' Bleak House refer to "market circulation" and economics. He uses the metaphors of Chancery as the market and as famine, and domesticity as finance. He concludes that Dickens' position is relatively close to that of Bagehot, the editor of The Economist in 1858. The purpose is to show an underlying meaning often skimmed over in a work of Dickens.

• Federico, Annette, 1960-. 2004. David copperfield and the pursuit of happiness. Victorian Studies 46, (1): 69-95.

In "David Copperfield and the pursuit of happiness" Annette Frederico asserts that David Copperfield centrals around a theme of pursuing happiness and expresses Charles Dickens' social and economic liberalism and increasing frustration. She uses support from the text of the novel to conclude that Dickens connects the idea of pursuing personal happiness to the economic idea of general good.