Companion to 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood'

<p>This book first published in 1986 explores the allusions in Dickens’s work such as current events and religious and intellectual issues social customs topography costume furniture and transportation. Together with an analysis of Dickens’s imaginative responses to his culture and their place in the genesis and composition of the text this book is a full-scale thoroughgoing annotation that <i>The Mystery of Edwin Drood </i>requires.</p>