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Becoming Dickens : The Invention of a Novelist.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (400 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674062764
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Becoming DickensDDC classification:
  • 823.8
LOC classification:
  • PR4582
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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