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1 YJA CX2010B182 Title An Overview of the 21st-Century Western Studies of Charles Dickens ABSTRACT Although Charles Dickens's critical reputation undergoes ups and downs he has been a hot topic in literary studies. Voluminous monographs and papers have laid the foundation for the Dickens industry. Western Dickens studies over the past decade exhibit the following trends firstly theory-based studies of Dickens have become increasingly varied in approach or perspective combining postmodernist interpretations with traditional ones secondly biographical studies have made more contribution to the understanding of the life and works of Dickens thirdly nonfiction studies have produced impressive results. An overview of the 21st-century Western Dickens studies can help Chinese critics broaden their critical horizon. 168

2 21 Keywords Western Charles Dickens studies the 21st-century overview Author Cai Xi < 126. com > is a Ph. D. student at College of Liberal Arts Hunan Normal University Changsha China His major research areas are British and American literature and Western literary criticism Terri Hasseler Lyn John Bowen Other Dickens Pickwick to Chuzzlewit 2000 Charles Dickens Andrew Dowling Manliness and the Male Novelist in Victorian Literature 2001 Dowling 3 169

3 No Jeremy Tambling Lost in the American City Dickens James and Kafka 2001 Efraim Sicher Rereading the City Rereading Dickens 2003 Alan Robinson Imagining London F. S Robinson xiv Sicher Julian Markels The Marxian Imagination Representing Class in Literature 2003 Lionel Trilling The Liberal Imagination 1950 Pam Morris 19 Imagining Inclusive Society in Nineteenth-Century Novels The Code of Sincerity in the Public Sphere The English Novel Eagleton 156 Wendy Jacobson Dickens and the 170

4 21 Children of Empire 2000 James Kincaid Murray Baumgarten Grahame Smith Grace Moore Dickens and Empire Discourses of Class Race and Colonialism in the Works of Charles Dickens 2004 Catherine Robson Men in Wonderland The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman Robson 3 Elizabeth Campbell Fortune's Wheel Dickens and the Iconography of Women's Time 2003 Campbell 203 A. O. J. A. O. J. Cockshut Children's Death in Dickens A Chapter in the History of Taste 2000 Cockshut David Parker The Doughty Street Novel

5 No Parker xii Juliet John Dickens's Villains Melodrama Character Popular Criticism 2001 Juliet 111 Tore Rem Dickens Melodrama and the Parodic Imagination 2002 Peter Garrett Gothic Reflections Narrative Force in Nineteenth- century Fiction 2003 Stanley Friedman Dickens' Fiction Tapestries of Conscience Matthew Bevis Temporizing Dickens John Drew the Dent Uniform Edition qtd. in Bevis Jay Clayton Dickens in Cyberspace The Afterlife of the Nineteenth Century in Postmodern Culture 2003 John Glavin Dickens on Screen 172

6 Grahame Smith Dickens and the Dream of Cinema Robert Newson Charles Dickens Revisited Rod Mengham Charles Dickens 2001 Robert Sirabian Charles Dickens Life Work and Criticism 2002 Jane Smiley Charles Dickens Malcolm Andrews Charles Dickens and His Performing Selves 2006 Laurence W. Mazzeno The Dickens Industry Critical Perspectives Fred Kaplan Life of Charles Dickens Michael Slater 2009 Dickens

7 No L. W. Mazzeno 255 Mazzeno 255 Works Cited Bevis Matthew. Temporizing Dickens. Review of English Studies A Quarterly Journal of English Literature and the English Language 52. May Campbell Elizabeth A. Fortune's Wheel Dickens and the Iconography of Women's Time. Athens Ohio UP Cockshut A. O. J. Children's Death in Dickens A Chapter in the history of Taste. Representations of Childhood Death. Eds. Gillian Avery et al. New York St. Martin's Dowling Andrew. Manliness and the Male Novelist in Victorian Literature. Aldershot England Ashgate Eagleton Terry. The English Novel An Introduction. Malden MA Blackwell Friedman Stanley. Dickens' Fiction Tapestries of Conscience. New York AMS Press John Juliet. Dickens's Villains Melodrama Character Popular Criticism. Oxford Oxford UP Lyn Pykett. Charles Dickens. Critical Series. London Palgrave Mazzeno Laurence W. The Dickens Industry Critical Perspectives Camden House Morris Pam. Imagining Inclusive Society in Nineteenth-Century Novels The Code of Sincerity in the Public Sphere. Baltimore MD Johns Hopkins UP Newey Vincent. The Scriptures of Charles Dickens. Aldershot Eng. and Burlington Vt Ashgate Parker David. The Doughty Street Novel. New York AMS Press Robinson Alan. Imagining London London Palgrave Macmillan Robson Catherine. Men in Wonderland The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman. Princeton NJ Princeton UP Sicher Efraim. Rereading the City Rereading Dickens. New York AMS Press Smiley Jane. Charles Dickens. New York Viking