The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens

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John O. Jordan is Research Professor of Literature and Director of the Dickens Project at the University of California Santa Cruz. He is the author of Supposing Bleak House (University of Virginia Press 2011). He edited The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens (2001) and has co-edited several essay collections on Victorian Literature and on Dickens most recently Global Dickens (Ashgate 2012). Robert L. Patten writes primarily about Victorian literature graphic arts and print culture. He has co-edited volumes of essays on Dickens with John O. Jordan (Literature in the Marketplace Cambridge 1995) and John Bowen (Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies Palgrave 2006). His books on Dickens include Charles Dickens and His Publishers (Oxford 1978; 2nd edn. enlarged 2017) and the Colby prize winning Charles Dickens and Boz: The Birth of the Industrial-Age Author Cambridge 2012). His two-volume biography George Cruikshank's Life Times and Art (Rutgers 1992 1996) was named the best biography of the 1990s by the Guardian. And for the Ashgate Library of Essays on Charles Dickens a 6-volume series edited by Catherine Waters he edited the volume on Dickens and Victorian Print Culture (2012). Catherine Waters is Professor of Victorian Literature and Print Culture at the University of Kent. She is the author of Dickens and the Politics of the Family (Cambridge University Press 1997) and Commodity Culture in Dickens's Household Words: The Social Life of Goods (Ashgate 2008). She is series editor of the 6-volume collection A Library of Essays on Charles Dickens (Ashgate 2012) and has co-edited several essay collections devoted to Dickens the most recent being Dickens and the Imagined Child co-edited with Peter Merchant (Ashgate 2015). She is a member of the editorial advisory board of the Dickens Journals Online project and a vice-president of the Canterbury branch of the Dickens Fellowship.