Charles Dickens : a literary life

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Charles Dickens : a literary life

Grahame Smith

(Macmillan literary lives)

Macmillan , St. Martin's, 1996

  • : uk, hbk
  • : uk, pbk
  • : us

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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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