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Charles Dickens: A Literary Life
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Series: Literary Lives
Literary FiguresLiterary Criticism
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ISBN10: 0333557190
ISBN13: 9780333557198
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Mar 8 1996
Pages: 190
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.53 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.68
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780333557198
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Mar 8 1996
Pages: 190
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.53 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.68
Language: English
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.
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