Cover -- Content -- Preface -- Geography -- Moving through the Night: Dickens's Walks in Nocturnal London (Elmar Schenkel) -- Bibliography -- American Notes and Dickens's Projects of Reform (Stefan Lampadius) -- Introduction - Dickens the Reformer -- America - The Republic of Imagination -- Asylums - Education of Heart and Mind? -- Prisons - Between the Best and Worst -- Outlook - Beyond America -- Bibliography -- Multilayered Identity and Palimpsest in Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit (Maria Fleischhack) -- The Struggle of Identity -- Architecture as an Indicator of Character -- From Rags to Riches - Society and Identity Loss -- Bibliography -- Dickens Goes South: A Gentleman's Perspective (Stefan welz) -- The Personal Challenge: Education and Respectability -- The Challenge of the Genre: Style and Intentions -- The Cultural challenge: America and Italy -- Bibliography -- Adaptation -- Charles Dickens: A Disney Carol Disney's Adaptations of Dickens's Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol (Franziska Burstyn) -- Dickens and the Victorian Street Arab Tale -- The Disneyfication of Dickens -- Oliver & Company -- Mickey's Christmas Carol -- Bibliography -- Back to the Future: The Time Traveller's Traumatic Jetlag in A Christmas Carol (Franziska E. Kohlt) -- Dickens, Christmas and the invention of tradition -- Haunting Memories and Daunting Futures: The Transcendental Nature of Christmas and Dickensian Time Travel -- Victorian scientific thought and Dickens's use of the Supernatural -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- "The world warped to his fancy" Charles Dickens in Richard Flanagan's Wanting (Luise Wolff) -- Dickens in Wanting -- Dickens as Novel Writer -- Dickens as Journalist -- Dickens as Actor -- Bibliography -- Reception.

"Dickens did not write what the people wanted. Dickens wanted what the people wanted" - G. K. Chesterton's Charles Dickens as character and critique (Anna Wille) -- Bibliography -- "Please, sir, I want some more": Representations of Poverty on the Move (Marie-Luise Egbert) -- Introduction -- Poverty Legislation in Dickens's Day -- Poor Dickens -- The How of Narrating Low Life -- Educating Middle-Class Feeling -- Oliver Twist Goes Postcolonial: Vikas Swarup's Q and A -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- The Lost Leipzig Letters: Charles Dickens, Bernhard Tauchnitz and the German Connection (Dietmar Böhnke) -- Introduction -- The Lost Letters -- Bernhard Tauchnitz and the Collection of British Authors -- Tauchnitz and Dickens -- Dickens in Leipzig -- Conclusion: Dickens and Germany -- Bibliography -- Charles Dickens and New Zealand: A Long-Distance Relationship with a Future (Max Hübner) -- Historical Background -- New Zealand in Household Words and All the Year Round -- New Zealand in The Letters of Charles Dickens -- A.H. Reed -- Charles Dickens and New Zealand Today -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.