Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: From Dicken's decadence to a decadent Dickens / Giles Whitely and Jonathan Foster-- Part I : Dickens on decadence
  • 'I almost wonder that YOU never turn your thoughts to Africa' : decadent commodity culture in Bleak House / Grace Moore
  • Skimpole's peasant boy : Dickens, Tolstoy and decadence / Tom Hubbard
  • Maladministration : Dickens, decadence and the higher civil service / Jonathan Foster
  • 'The spike that intervenes' : the corruption of the east by the decadence of the west in The Mystery of Edwin Drood / Pete Orford
  • Part II : Dicken's decadence
  • The theatre of cruelty of Our Mutal Friend / John Bowen
  • 'But then I mean so much that I - that I don't mean' : sincerity and decadence in Our Mutal Friend / Tamsin Evernden
  • Dickens : dining decadently / Claire Wood
  • Anti-chronology : decadence in Carlyle, Dickens and Baidelaire / Jeremy Tambling
  • Part III : Decedent Dickens
  • Huysmans' Dickensian ark : decadence and the domestic / Giles Whiteley
  • 'When to lie and how' : caricature and the decedent legacy of Charles Dickens / Kimberley J. Stern
  • Charles Dickens, Arthur Machen and the aesthetic alchemy of things / Dennis Denisoff
  • Three masters : Charles Dickens in the work of Stefan Zeig, Gustav Meyrink and Franz Kafka / James Dowthwaite
  • Postscript : Dicken's wild style / Giles Whiteley.