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008			111018s2012 enka b 001 0 eng
020			_a9781107023512 (hardback)
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041			_aeng
082	0	0	_a823.8 _223 _bPAC 2012
100	1		_aPatten, Robert L.
245	1	0	_aCharles Dickens and 'Boz' : _bthe birth of the industrial-age author / _cRobert L. Patten.
260			_aCambridge ; _aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2012.
300			_axvii, 408 p. : _bill. ; _c23 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 382-395) and index.
505	8		_aMachine 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.
520			_a"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"--
590			_aMKI
600	1	0	_aDickens, Charles, _d1812-1870 _xCriticism and interpretation.
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. _2bisacsh
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