Becoming Dickens : The Invention of a Novelist.
Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert.
Becoming Dickens : The Invention of a Novelist. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (400 pages)
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Prologue: Somebody and Nobody -- Chapter 1. Lost and Found -- Chapter 2. The Clerk's Tale -- Chapter 3. Up in the Gallery -- Chapter 4. Mr. Dickin -- Chapter 5. "Here We Are!" -- Chapter 6. Becoming Boz -- Chapter 7. The Moving Age -- Chapter 8. "Pickwick, Triumphant" -- Chapter 9. Novelist Writer -- Chapter 10. Dickens at Home -- Chapter 11. Is She His Wife? -- Chapter 12. Being Dickens -- Postscript: Signing Off -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
This provocative biography tells the story of how an ambitious young Londoner became England's greatest novelist. Focused on the 1830s, it portrays a restless, uncertain Dickens who could not decide on a career path. Through twists and turns, the author traces a double transformation: in reinventing himself Dickens reinvented the form of the novel.
9780674062764
Dickens, Charles,-1812-1870.
Novelists, English-19th century-Biography.
Electronic books.
PR4582
823.8
Becoming Dickens : The Invention of a Novelist. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (400 pages)
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Prologue: Somebody and Nobody -- Chapter 1. Lost and Found -- Chapter 2. The Clerk's Tale -- Chapter 3. Up in the Gallery -- Chapter 4. Mr. Dickin -- Chapter 5. "Here We Are!" -- Chapter 6. Becoming Boz -- Chapter 7. The Moving Age -- Chapter 8. "Pickwick, Triumphant" -- Chapter 9. Novelist Writer -- Chapter 10. Dickens at Home -- Chapter 11. Is She His Wife? -- Chapter 12. Being Dickens -- Postscript: Signing Off -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
This provocative biography tells the story of how an ambitious young Londoner became England's greatest novelist. Focused on the 1830s, it portrays a restless, uncertain Dickens who could not decide on a career path. Through twists and turns, the author traces a double transformation: in reinventing himself Dickens reinvented the form of the novel.
9780674062764
Dickens, Charles,-1812-1870.
Novelists, English-19th century-Biography.
Electronic books.
PR4582
823.8