LEON LITVACK is Professor of Victorian Studies at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is Principal Editor of the Charles Dickens Letters Project and has authored numerous publications on the historical and visual approaches to Dickens. NATHALIE VANFASSE is Professor of English at Aix-Marseille Université, France. Her monograph, La plume et la route: Charles Dickens, écrivain-voyageur was winner of the 2018 SELVA book prize.

List of Figures vii

Notes on Contributors ix

Acknowledgements xiii

Abbreviations xv

Introduction 1
Leon Litvack and Nathalie Vanfasse

Part I Reconfiguring Dickens 13

1 Dickens's Burial in Westminster Abbey: The Untold Story 15
Leon Litvack

2 A Tale of Two Brothers: Reading Differently Dickens's French Revolution 47
Lillian Nayder

3 Parallel Lives, Converging Destinies: Charles Dickens and Thomas Babington Macaulay 61
David Paroissien

4 Decent Restraint Spurned: Dickens, Penal Policy and Conflict at Cold Bath Fields Prison, 1846-1850 75
Neil Davie

Part II Reincorporating Dickens 93

5 A Somatic Experience of Dickens's Fiction 95
Georges Letissier

6 Dickens and Lawrence: Mimicry, Totemism, Animism 113
Michael Hollington

7 Wreckage and Ruin: Turner, Dickens, Ruskin 125
Jeremy Tambling

8 Boz without Phiz: Reading Dickens with Different Illustrations 149
Chris Louttit

Part III Resetting Dickens 165

9 Speculation and Silence: Reading Dickens by Instalment in Time, at the Time and for Our Time 167
Pete Orford

10 Dickens Touches the Sky: Urban Exploration and London's Greatest Author 185
Gillian Piggott

11 Dickens as Icon and Antonomasia in Assassin's Creed: Syndicate 207
Francesca Orestano

12 From Movable Book to iPad App: Playing a Christmas Carol 223
Claire Wood

Index 243

"...this is a valuable acquisition for scholars wishing to rethink the boundaries of their own research methodologies and focuses. Dickens's readers will appreciate the indication this collection gives that more precise history of the author and his increasingly interactive corpus are both waiting to be developed and explored in the twenty-first century." - Dickens Quarterly, Volume 37, Number 2, June 2020, pp. 192-195 (Review)