Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at how Dickens's contradictory views of the world, as evidenced in his rhetoric, affect reader's reactions. "Dickens assures his reader that the world is a moral one in which good actions change the world. But the images he creates contradict that faith in a rational world." Notes, index. xiii, 136 pp. ISBN: 0-82291140X.