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Dickens's multifacetedness as a writer and the wide range of his appeal to readers help to account for the extraordinarily large field of critical literature that has grown up in response to his work. Many anthologies of criticism devoted to particular works by Dickens have appeared, as have selections illustrating particular approaches to his writing or developments in criticism from the... Read more
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Biography
Dr Waters is a Reader in the School of English at the University of Kent, UK. Her books include Dickens and the Politics of the Family (Cambridge University Press 1997; rpt 2005) and Commodity Culture in Dickens's Household Words: The Social Life of Goods (Ashgate 2008), which was awarded the 2009 Robert Colby Prize by the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals. She is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Dickens Journals Online project and is one of the organizers for the bicentenary travelling conference, Dickens and the Idea of 'The Dickensian': A Tale of Four Cities.
