What does Charles dickens have in common with other Victorian writers?

He did a lot of serial work for magazines ( as did many Victorian hands) and also he did not hesitate to tackle social problems such as poverty ( one novel even called Hard Times) and he directly targeted Industrial Big Business as making more problems than they could possibly solve... Victor Hugo ( Frenchman) was in the same league with Les Miserables. No American writer of THAT time directly tackled social problems, unless the wining of the West and Indian Battles- well the Western sagas- are taken into account and that is generally colored up.