The syllabi for ENG 329, Dickens novels course, is now available on my website, in .pdf format. Click here. This should be a great course. It's timed to coincide with Dickens' 200th birthday and related celebrations. Looking forward to a great semester.
For those in the course, be sure to read John Forester's Life of Charles Dickens, Book 1, chapter 2 (pages 11-19) about the author's early life. Here's a link to that section in the book.