Nelson's intention is to send readers back to Dickens with a viewpoint from which they can survey him themselves, and with a chance to appreciate him as his contemporaries did. TEAS 314.

Includes index.

About the author -- Chronology -- " Bound to write everything" -- "That particular relation": Dickens and his Audience -- " A low, cheap form of publication": Dickens'sserial composition -- Rhetoric, Structure, and Mode -- Bleak House -- The meaning of Dickens -- Apendix: simmaries of novels most often discussed -- Notes and References