“In all Dickens’s work there is a confusion of mind which reflects the perplexity of his time; equally ready to denounce on the grounds of humanity all who left things alone, and on the grounds of liberty all who tried to make them better, England was shifting uneasily and convulsively from an old to a new discipline, and the early stages were painful.” — G. M. Young, Victorian England: Portrait of an Age
Domestic Affairs
- Dickens's Anti-Medievalism
- The Class Significance of "The Tuggses at Ramsgate"
- Dickens's Satire of British Parliamentary Elections: Eatanswill, Essex
- Dickens, Cobbett, and “the ordinary man”
- The text of "Philadelphia, and its Solitary Prison," Ch. 7 in American Notes text
- Dickens and Social Class
- Economic Contexts
- The Evolution of Victorian Capitalism and Great Expectations
- Charles Dickens as Social Commentator and Critic
- Dickens and the Parish Beadle
International Affairs
- The Mysteries of Edwin Drood and the Chinese Opium Wars
- A Tale of Two Cities (1859): A Model of the Integration of History
- Carlyle's Influence upon A Tale of Two Cities
- The Imperial Context of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins's "The Perils of Certain English Prisoners" (1857)
- “‘Your Country Needs You’: Charles Dickens Called Up for National Service”
- Victorian Political History
Related Materials
- The Social Contexts of Dickens's Writings
- Charles Dickens's Great Expectations — Social and Political Contexts
- Themes in Little Dorrit
Last modified 16 November 2019