Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Dickens and Massachusetts, the Republic of His Imagination -- Part I: Exhibition -- Dickens and Massachusetts: A Tale of Power and Transformation Exhibition Narrative with Illustrations -- Part II: Essays -- 1. Dickens, the Lowell Mill Girls, and the Making of a Christmas Carol -- 2. Visions of Lowell, Light and Dark, in Our Mutual Friend -- 3. Dickens's Visit to the Perkins School and "Doctor Marigold"--4. Dickens, Longfellow, and the Village Blacksmith -- 5. Slavery in Dickens's Manuscript of American Notes for General Circulation -- 6. Dickens's Visits to Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1842 and 1868 -- 7. Dickens, Martineau, and Massachusetts: The Republic They Came to See -- Appendix: Selected Works by Charles Dickens -- About the Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover