Recent Dickens Studies: 2017

Abstract

This essay surveys Dickens scholarship and adaptations published in 2017, summarizing over two hundred books, chapters, articles, and other forms of media. Scholarship from 2017 featured a focus on biography and source studies; print culture including authors, readers, and publication practices; intermediality; language, form, and genre; science, religion, and philosophy; finance, economics, and class; geography, travel, and empire; gender and sexuality; animals and the environment; visual culture and museum culture; food; pedagogy and education; and editions, notes, and other resources. This review includes several web-based resources related to Dickens that may be of interest to scholars, as well as several adaptations.