Edited by Eileen Gillooly and Deirdre David Contemporary Dickens is a collection of essays that presents some of the most intriguing work being undertaken in Dickens studies today.ampampnbspThrough an emphasis on the nineteenthcentury origins of our current critical preoccupations and ways of knowing these essays reveal Dickens to be our contemporary. The contributors argue that such issues as gender and sexuality environmentalism and the construction of national identity were frequently explored and sometimes problematically resolved by Dickens himself.ampampnbspThey also illuminate the importance of Dickenss place in our current reassessment of critical methodologies. ampampnbsp Drawing freely upon a variety of reading strategies materialist deconstructive new historical psychoanalytic and feminist the essays disclose new aspects of Dickenss engagements with a number of Victorian concernsmoral philosophy the psychology of the emotions and life writing among themthat have once again emerged as significant objects of study in earlytwentyfirst century criticism.ampampnbspLooking at such familiar topics from fresh perspectives Contemporary Dickens is an original and challenging contribution to Dickens studies in particular and Victorian criticism in general. ampampnbsp Contemporary Dickens will appeal to general readers and students of Victorian culture as well as specialists in nineteenthcentury literature cultural studies literary formalism psychology and gender studies. ampampnbsp ampampnbsp