In considering the whole range of Dickens' relations with his English and overseas publishers, Professor Patten relates the story of the novelist's social encounters, violent breaches, and uneasy alliances with John Macrone, Richard Bentley, Edward and Frederic Chapman, William Hall, Bernhard Tauchnitz, William Bradbury, F M Evans, and his American publishers in a compelling record of personal and professional associations. Private drama is subordinated to a narrative of 'a very special kind of venture', serial publication. Drawing extensively on the accounts rendered to Dickens by Bradbury...
In considering the whole range of Dickens' relations with his English and overseas publishers, Professor Patten relates the story of the novelist's so...
The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens is a comprehensive and up-to-date collection on Dickens's life and works that includes original chapters on all of Dickens's writing and new considerations of his contexts, from the social, political, and economic to the scientific, commercial, and religious.
The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens is a comprehensive and up-to-date collection on Dickens's life and works that includes original chapters on all...
