TY  - BOOK
AU  - Douglas-Fairhurst,Robert
TI  - Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist
SN  - 9780674062764
AV  - PR4582 
U1  - 823.8 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Dickens, Charles,-1812-1870
KW  - Novelists, English-19th century-Biography
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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