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The One, Other, and Only Dickens is sui generis... Stewart offers an exuberant appreciation of Dickens's language, a celebration of craft.... Stewart points toward a return to the pleasurable, slow reading of both criticism and primary texts, but Stewart champions sustained and passionate attentiveness as integral to that process. Stewart's lovely reading, and writing, will be a pleasure to readers who agree with Thackeray's 1847 appraisal of Dickens that 'There's no writing against such power as this-one has no chance!' * SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *

Under Stewart's tutoring, the patterned but unruly sound effects we hardly knew we'd heard in Dickens ring distinct for the first time. Our unplugged ears open to a supplement of linguistic intensity that feels pointless and primal, idle and unbridled, simultaneously. The only certain work performed by this Other Dickens is to immerse us in his language more deeply: more dispersively. Stewart's own word-play persuades us that such too-richness is the condition not only of Dickens's expansive writing, but also of his closest readers. -- D.A. Miller, Professor of the Graduate School, UC Berkeley, and author of <I>Jane Austen, or the Secret of Style </I>and <I>Hidden Hitchcock</I> No critic trains a finer ear than does Garrett Stewart on the sheer sound of Dickens's language. A remarkable feat of attentive reading and writing equally, this study is a major contribution to our understanding of Dickensian prose. -- Daniel Tyler, University of Cambridge, editor of <I>Dickens's Style</I> Garrett Stewart's signature attentiveness finds a perfect object - and source - in the verbal and phonetic energies of Charles Dickens's writing. Stewart shows that if we take such energy seriously enough we are led, inevitably, to more granular ways of reading. The result is an entirely new and welcome picture of Dickens's prose, at close range, in all its uncanniness. -- Alex Woloch, Richard W. Lyman Professor of the Humanities, Stanford University

The One, Other, and Only Dickens is sui generis... Stewart offers an exuberant appreciation of Dickens's language, a celebration of craft.... Stewart points toward a return to the pleasurable, slow reading of both criticism and primary texts, but Stewart champions sustained and passionate attentiveness as integral to that process. Stewart's lovely reading, and writing, will be a pleasure to readers who agree with Thackeray's 1847 appraisal of Dickens that 'There's no writing against such power as this-one has no chance!' * SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 * A series of compelling readings from the inklings of nebulous popular consensus. * Dickens Quarterly *

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Garrett Stewart is James O. Freedman Professor of Letters at University of Iowa. He is the author of several books on Victorian fiction as well as film theory, poetics, and conceptual art, including: Novel Violence: A Narratography of Victorian Fiction; The Deed of Reading: Literature • Writing • Language • Philosophy; Transmedium: Conceptualism 2.0 and the New Object Art; and The Value of Style in Fiction.

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