Becoming Dickens:

Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert

Becoming Dickens: the invention of a novelist - Belknap 2011 - 389 p., [16] p. of plates

Includes bibliographical references and index

This work tells the story of how an ambitious young Londoner became England's greatest novelist. In following the twists and turns of Charles Dickens's early career, Douglas-Fairhurst examines a double transformation: in reinventing himself, Dickens reinvented the form of the novel.

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Dickens 1812-1870 Charles


Novelists, English--19th century--Biography

823.8 DIC