Recent Dickens Studies—2015

Abstract

This article surveys Dickens scholarship in 2015, with attention to more than 170 monographs, collections, book chapters, and journal essays. The scholarship exhibits an increasing interest in intermediality studies (including intertextuality), “things” and “bodies,” ethical and moral analyses, and an intensifying revival of formal and textual-aesthetic interests, including treatments of style, mode, voice, characterization, form, and “beauty.” The scholarship surveyed is organized into the following categories: General Studies; Bibliographical Studies; Biographical Studies; Ethics; Aesthetics; Modes of Reading; Intermediality; Bodies; Childhood, Adulthood, Family; Environments; Empire; and Neo-Victorianism. It does not include web-based scholarship except for the cluster of articles published in the online journal 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century.