Charles Dickens : a literary life
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Bibliographic Information
Charles Dickens : a literary life
（Macmillan literary lives）
Macmillan , St. Martin's, 1996
- : uk, hbk
- : uk, pbk
- : us
Available at 22 libraries
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Kobe Shoin Women's University Library / Kobe Shoin Women's College Library
: pbk930.262H059947*,
: uk, hbk1063939
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This study of Dickens's career as a professional writer uses a range of material to describe and analyze the ways in which his work can be seen as a form of literary production. It thus offers a challenge to traditional accounts which stress the private nature of Dickens's genius. Smith focuses on the communal nature of Dickens's achievement in his struggles with publishers, the expectations of a vast public, and the demands of serialization.
Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations - Acknowledgements - Chronology - Epigraph - Authorship and Literary Production - Publishers and Serialization - Dickens's Reading - Periodicals, Journalism and the Literary Essay - Theatre and Popular Entertainment - Dickens's Public: Adulation and Constraint - Dickens and Social Institutions - Great Expectations: Literary Career and Literary Text - Notes - Index
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