The Pickwick papers / by Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

“Consider Yourself One of Us”: The Dickens Musical on Stage and Screen by Anthony Barker

“…Other texts by Dickens, notably Pickwick Papers, A Christmas Carol and The Old Curiosity Shop, were also adapted to musical forms with varying results, but the period of their heyday was relatively short, as their use of traditional and communitarian forms gave place in the people’s affection to manufactured pop/rock and operetta forms. …”
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Ambivalent Father Figures and the Enigma of Male Identity in Dickens’s Fiction by Max Véga-Ritter

“…It throws light on the way Dickens functioned in his earlier novels ambivalently or irresolutely, but alternately, on two opposite poles of his mind, those of self-identification with the benign—but eventually possibly inadequate—father image in the Pickwick Papers—the second Scrooge—or of a counter identification with its opposite negative image—the Rebels—in Oliver Twist, leaving the question of sex identity open or in a state of conundrum. …”
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Reflections on Education: What Is the Current Problem or Issue? - How the Past Informs the Present Is Vital for an Inclusive Education by Elizabeth Negus

“…In Bleak House (1853), The Pickwick Papers (1836), Little Dorrit (1857), Great Expectations (1861) and Hard Times (1854) and A Christmas Carol (1843) he presents goodwill and revenge; suffering and death - issues irrespective of class, thus exacting justice of a different order. …”
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Steel Bubbles: Death, Inexhaustibility, and Dickens’s Idea of the Book in Sketches by Boz, First Series (1836) by Jeffrey Jackson

“…Sketches by Boz has been regarded as the book that qualified Charles Dickens as being among those paragons celebrated at Mrs Leo Hunter’s déjeuner in The Pickwick Papers: ‘real authors who had written whole books’. …”
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Spurious Victorians: imitation and the nineteenth-century novel by Abraham, A

“…Publications such as <em>The Pickwick Papers</em> inspired an array of opportunistic successors, including stage plays, unauthorized sequels, jest books, song books, and shilling and penny imitations. …”