Barnaby Rudge Bibliography (PDF)
Critical Articles (Password Protected)
Brantlinger, Patrick. “Did Dickens Have a Philosophy of History? The Case of Barnaby Rudge.”Dickens Studies Annual, vol. 30, 2001. Pp. 59-74.
Bowen, John. Chapter 6
“History’s Grip,” from
Other Dickens: Pickwick to Chuzzlewit. London: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. 157-182.
Case, Alison.
“Against Scott: The Antihistory of Dickens’s Barnaby Rudge.”Clio, vol. 19 no. 2, 1990. Pp. 127-45
Tambling, Jeremy.
Dickens, Violence, and the Modern State: Dreams of the Scaffold. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1995.
Chapter 5, “Dickens and Dostoevsky: Capital Punishment in Barnaby Rudge, A Tale of Two Cities andThe Idiot.”Williams, Carolyn.
“Stupidity and Stupefaction: Barnaby Rudge and the Mute Figure of Melodrama.”Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction, vol. 46, 2015. Pp. 357–76.
Wilt, Judith.
“Masques of the English in Barnaby Rudge.”Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction, vol. 30, 2001. Pp. 75–94.
Recommended reading for "Deciphering Dickens" ProjectDickens, Charles, and Edgar Rosenberg. "
Writing Great Expectations."
Great Expectations: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, Contexts, Criticism. W. W. Norton & Company, 1999. 427-468.
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Reading ScheduleMonday, July 15: Serial Nos. I-II, Ch. I-XII
Tuesday, July 16: Serial Nos. III-IV, Ch. XIII-XXXI
Wednesday, July 17: Serial Nos. V-VI, Ch. XXXII-XLIX
Thursday, July 18: Serial Nos. VII-VIII, Ch. L-LXIX
Friday, July 19: Serial Nos. IX-X, Ch. LXX-LXXXII
---Discussion Topics- Keys and locks
- Locked in or locked out?
- “He has all the wit”: avian wisdom
- Grotesque births
- Histories and anniversaries
- Homes and inns
- Sixty years Hence: Time and the Historical Novel
- Secrets and Promises
- Avuncular Men
- “He wants imagination”
- Animals, human and non-human
- Lower class grotesques
- Weekly serials
- Roads and streets
- London over time
- Unnatural fathers
- Snugness
- Waiting for the Gordon Riots
- Desiring the master’s daughter
- Violence: state, gendered, sexual, domestic, orchestrated, mass
- Bells and soundscapes
- The mystery plot
- Aging women
- Writing riots
- Forms of crowds
- (Dis)abilities
- Protestant, Catholic, Christian
- Madness
- Dueling illustrations
- Gothic styles and forms
- Signs and signage