How to Study a Charles Dickens Novel

This book provides a clear method of study which encourages students to construct their own interpretation of any of Dicken's novels.

It helps students to identify a novel's major thematic concerns and interests and to argue a case purely from the evidence of the text.

But it also moves beyond a straighforwardly thematic analysis to consider how a novel is put together and how it works.

This in turn provides students with a way of identifying the distinctiveness of Dickens's fiction and with a way of structuring an intelligent critical response to any of his novels.