Charles Dickens: A Literary Life

ISBN-13: 9780333557198 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 210 str.

Grahame Smith

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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