The essays from notable Dickens scholars - Malcolm Andrews, Matthias Bauer, Joel J. Brattin, Doris Feldmann, Herbert Foltinek, Robert Heaman, Michael Hollington, Bert Hornback, Norbert Lennartz, Chris Louttit, Jerome Meckier, Nancy Aycock Metz,David Paroissien, Christopher Pittard, and Robert Tracy - suggest the many ways in which the notion of change has found entry into and is negotiated in Dickens's works through four aspects: social change, political and ideological change, literary change, and cultural change.