Dickens the Journalist

ISBN-13: 9780333987735 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 255 str.

John M. L. Drew

Opis

This book is first critical study to take on Dicken's journalizm as a three-dimnsional field in its own right, and to assess the justice of recent press reviews of Dicken's journalizm as 'outstanding' and 'as dazzling as any of his fiction'. Its first object is to tell the story of Dicken's forty-year career in the media as clearly and authoritatively as possible, explaining and recording much that was unknown or obscure before.

Recenzje

'An important contribution to Dickens scholarship. This is the first critical study of this important aspect of Dickens's 40-year career... it provides the reader with an immensely useful biographical, historical and social context in which to read the journalism.' - Tribune

'This is the first book to look at Dickens's journalism in the round and it is hard to imagine that it could have been done better...his light touch and gift for a telling phrase make for an engaging and lively book.' - John Bowen, Times Literary Supplement

'Drew does an excellent job of drawing our attention to the strengths, successes and weaknesses of Dickens's journalistic output.' - David Finkelstein, Year's Work in English Studies (2005)

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Introduction Copying and Reporting Life (1830-33) Chronicling and Sketching Life (1834-36) 'Boz' as 'Editor' (1837-41) Travelling, Skirmishing, and Sharp-shooting (1841-44) Launching The Daily News (1845-46) Reviewing The Examiner (1848-49) Editing Life: Household Words (1850-59) Publishing and Recalling Life: All the Year Round (1859-70) Dickens the Journalist: Models, Modes and Media Special Correspondence: Reading Dickens's Journalism Endnotes Bibliography and Abbreviations Index

O autorze

JOHN DREW is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Buckingham. He edited, with Michael Slater, the final volume of the Dent Uniform Edition of Dickens's Journalism (2000), and has recently edited Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray (2001). His doctoral thesis was on The Uncommercial Traveller, and he has also published a number of articles and reviews on aspects of Victorian journalism in The Dickensian and Dickens Quarterly.