Dickens the Journalist
Dickens the Journalist

Author: J. Drew

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2003-10-16

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 0230006108

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Dickens's career as a journalist spanned four decades, during which he wrote over 350 articles: reports, sketches, reviews, leaders, exposés, satires and reminiscences. This project offers the first critical guide to over a million words of vintage Dickens, which have been much overlooked in continuous assessments and re-assessments of his novels. It provides both a biographical and socio-historical account of the main phases of Dickens's career as a journalist, and a critical assessment of the thematic and stylistic development of his work.

Selected Journalism 1850-1870
Selected Journalism 1850-1870

Author: Charles Dickens

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2006-09-28

Total Pages: 882

ISBN-13: 0141921897

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Throughout his writing career Charles Dickens was a hugely prolific journalist. This volume of his later work is selected from pieces that he wrote after he founded the journal Household Words in 1850 up until his death in 1870. Here subjects as varied as his nocturnal walks around London slums, prisons, theatres and Inns of Court, journeys to the continent and his childhood in Kent and London are captured in remarkable pieces such as 'Night Walks', 'On Strike', 'New Year's Day' and 'Lying Awake'. Aiming to catch the imagination of a public besieged by hack journalism, these writings are an extraordinary blend of public and private, news and recollection, reality and fantastic description.

Dickens, Journalism, Music
Dickens, Journalism, Music

Author: Robert Terrell Bledsoe

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2012-02-09

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1441150870

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Explores the coverage of music in the journals edited by Dickens and how they reflect Dickens' own attitude to music and its social role.

A Companion to Charles Dickens
A Companion to Charles Dickens

Author: David Paroissien

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 0470691220

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A Companion to Charles Dickens concentrates on the historical, ideological, and social forces that defined Dickens’s world. Puts Dickens’s work into its literary, historical, and social contexts Traces the development of Dickens’s career as a journalist and novelist Includes original essays by leading Dickensian scholars on each of Dickens’s fifteen novels Explores a broad range of topics, including criticisms of his novels, the use of history and law in his fiction, language, and the effect of political and social reform Examines Dickens's legacy and surveys the mass of secondary materials that has been generated in response and reverence to his writing

The Artful Dickens
The Artful Dickens

Author: John Mullan

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 1408866811

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An essential guide to the fictional world of Charles Dickens. In thirteen entertaining and insightful essays, Mullan explores the literary machinations of Dickens's eccentric genius, from his delight in cliches to his rendering of smells and his outrageous use of coincidences

Charles Dickens in Context
Charles Dickens in Context

Author: Sally Ledger

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-06-02

Total Pages: 429

ISBN-13: 1107377498

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Charles Dickens, a man so representative of his age as to have become considered synonymous with it, demands to be read in context. This book illuminates the worlds - social, political, economic and artistic - in which Dickens worked. Dickens's professional life encompassed work as a novelist, journalist, editor, public reader and passionate advocate of social reform. This volume offers a detailed treatment of Dickens in each of these roles, exploring the central features of Dickens's age, work and legacy, and uncovering sometimes surprising faces of the man and of the range of Dickens industries. Through 45 digestible short chapters written by a leading expert on each topic, a rounded picture emerges of Dickens's engagement with his time, the influence of his works and the ways he has been read, adapted and re-imagined from the nineteenth century to the present.

Becoming Dickens
Becoming Dickens

Author: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 0674072235

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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.

Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens

Author: Claire Tomalin

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2011-10-06

Total Pages: 633

ISBN-13: 0141971452

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THE ACCLAIMED DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY OF ONE OF THE GREATEST BRITISH WRITERS OF ALL TIME Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a journalist, a father of ten, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all, a great novelist. From unpromising beginnings sent to work a black factory age twelve, he rose to such social and literary heights that when he died, the world mourned. Yet the brilliance concealed a divided character: a republican, he disliked America; sentimental about the family, he took up with a young actress; usually generous, he cut off his impecunious children. From the award-winning author Claire Tomalin, Charles Dickens: A Life paints an unforgettable portrait of Dickens, capturing brilliantly the complex character of this great genius. If you loved Great Expectations, Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol, this book is invaluable reading. 'By far the most humane and imaginatively sympathetic account yet for the general reader' Amanda Craig, New Statesman