Synopses & Reviews
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.
About the Author
Grahame Smith is Professor of English Studies, University of Stirling.
Table of Contents
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
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