Charles Dickens

A Literary Life
1996. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-0-333-55719-8
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 313 g

Reihe: Literary Lives

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Grahame

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Grahame Smith is Professor of English Studies, University of Stirling.