General Studies of Charles Dickens and His Writings and Collected Editions of His Works

Professor Duane DeVries, General Editor of the series, is the leading scholar and bibliographer of Dickens. He is a retired Associate Professor of English from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University where he served as Head of the Department of Humanities and Communications. He edited Bleak House for the Crowell Critical Library (1971) and served as editor of the Dickens Studies Newsletter; as associate general editor of the Gale Information Guide to American Literature, English Literature, and World Literature in English (a 42-volume bibliographical series), and as general editor of the Garland Dickens Bibliographies (11 volumes), and its replacement, The Dickens Bibliographies (AMS Press, 3 volumes). He is also the author of Dickens's Apprentice Years: The Making of a Novelist, the second edition of which was published by EER in September 2017. His final four acclaimed bibliographical volumes of Dickens were recently published by EER.