Introduction / Wendell Stacy Johnson
Oliver Twist : the fortunate foundling / Robert A. Colby
The subversive methods of Dickens' early fiction : Martin Chuzzlewit / Richard Barickman
The novel as fairy tale : Dickens' Dombey and Son / Harry Stone
A psychoanalytic rereading of David Copperfield / Gordon D. Hirsch
Esther Summerson rehabilitated / Alex Zwerdling
"The prison of this lower world" / Gerald Coniff
Storytelling and the figure of the father in Little Dorrit / Dianne F. Sadoff
Patterns of communication in Great expectations / Ruth M. Vande Kieft
Communication in Great expectations / George Levine
Our mutual friend : a rhetorical approach to the first number / John M. Robson
The dying and undying voice / Edgar Johnson.