This special issue of the Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens initially published in 2012 means to celebrate Charles Dickens’s bicentenary of his birthday and offers a selection of articles derived from the yearly conference of the Dickens Society which took place in Aix-en-Provence. The aim of this volume is to consider how Dickens’s fiction is understood, interpreted and taught nowadays, and whether it answers twenty-first-century concerns. The essays collected here also examine how today’s public views the mid-Victorian period through Dickens’s writing. The editors would like to thank all the authors for their contributions to the present volume as well as the research centres which made this publication possible : the LERMA (Laboratoire d...