Introduction: The Dickens Phenomenon and the Dickens Industry -- Making of the Novelist and the Shaping of the Novel, 1835-1841 -- Travails in Hyperreality, 1842-1848 -- Mid-Victorian Self-Fashionings, 1846-1850 -- The Novelist as Journalist in Hard Times, 1850-1857 -- The Times of Ours, 1858-1870.
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