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)
• A Tale of two cities (1859)
• Great expectations (1860-61)

Annotated Bibliography

• Baubles, Raymond L. Jr. 1994. "Displaced Persons: The Cost of Speculation in Charles Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit."

• 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.

• Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

• Henderson, James P. ""Political Economy Is a Mere Skeleton Unless...": What Can Social Economists Learn From Charles Dickens?." Review of Social Economy 58 (June 2000): 141-51.

• Rosen, Michael and Robert R. Inapen. Dickens: His Work and His World. Cambridge: Candlewick Press, 2005.