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Charles Dickens

A Literary Life

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  • © 1996

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Authors:
  1. Grahame Smith

    1. University of Stirling, UK

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Part of the book series: Literary Lives (LL)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Authorship and Literary Production

    • Grahame Smith
    Pages 1-19

  3. Publishers and Serialization

    • Grahame Smith
    Pages 20-39

  4. Dickens’s Reading

    • Grahame Smith
    Pages 40-59

  5. Periodicals, Journalism and the Literary Essay

    • Grahame Smith
    Pages 60-85

  6. Theatre and Popular Entertainment

    • Grahame Smith
    Pages 86-105

  7. Dickens’s Public: Adulation and Constraint

    • Grahame Smith
    Pages 106-128

  8. Dickens and Social Institutions

    • Grahame Smith
    Pages 129-158

  9. Great Expectations:Literary Career and Literary Text

    • Grahame Smith
    Pages 159-178

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 179-190
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Stirling, UK

    Grahame Smith

About the author

Grahame Smith is Professor of English Studies, University of Stirling.




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