En Becoming Dickens, Douglas-Fairhurst rechaza la reciente teoría literaria "postestructuralista" y reexamina a Dickens y su Inglaterra en el marco de sus contextos históricos y políticos.
In Becoming Dickens, Douglas-Fairhurst, rejecting recent “poststructuralist” literary theory, reexamines Dickens and his England within their historical and political contexts.