Charles Dickens and 'Boz' : the birth of the industrial-age author / Robert L. Patten.
Material type:
TextLanguage: English Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.Description: xvii, 408 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: - 9781107023512 (hardback)
- 823.8 23 PAC 2012
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Books
|
Eastern University Library General Stacks | 823.8 PAC 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not For Loan | 14872 |
Browsing Eastern University Library shelves, Shelving location: General Stacks Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
|
No cover image available No cover image available | No cover image available No cover image available |
|
|
|
|
||
| 823.8 LEC 2011 Charles Dickens in context / | 823.8 MIG 1996 Great expectations / | 823.8 MIG 1996 Great expectations / | 823.8 PAC 2012 Charles Dickens and 'Boz' : | 823.8 PAD 1979 Dickens, Hard times, Great expectations, and Our mutual friend : | 823.8 STS 1999 The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / | 823.8 STS 1999 The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 382-395) and index.
Machine generated contents note: Prologue; 1. Christening Boz (1812-1834): The Journalism Sketches; 2. Characterizing Boz (1834-1837): Sketches by Boz; 3. Writing Boz (1836-1837): The Pickwick Papers; 4. Hiring Boz (1837-1839): Bentley's Miscellany and Oliver Twist; 5. Paying Boz (1838-1839): Nicholas Nickleby; 6. Rewriting Boz (1839-1841): Master Humphrey's Clock and The Old Curiosity Shop; 7. Unwriting Boz (1841): Master Humphrey's Clock and Barnaby Rudge; Bibliography; Index.
"Dickens' rise to fame and his world-wide popularity were by no means inevitable. He started out with no clear career in mind, drifting in and out of the theatre, journalism and editing before finding unexpected success as a creative writer. Taking account of everything known about Dickens's apprentice years, Robert L. Patten narrates the fierce struggle Dickens then had to create an alter ego, Boz, and later to contain and extinguish him. His revision of Dickens' biography in the context of early Victorian social and political history and print culture opens up a more unstable, yet more fascinating, portrait of Dickens. The book tells the story of how Dickens created an authorial persona that highlighted certain attributes and concealed others about his life, talent and publications. This complicated narrative of struggle, determination, dead ends and new beginnings is as gripping as one of Dickens' own novels"--
There are no comments on this title.