Charles Dickens: A Literary Life

by Grahame Smith

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333557190
• ISBN13: 9780333557198
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.7"