Charles Dickens and 'Boz' : the birth of the industrial-age author / Robert L. Patten.

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Patten, Robert L

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781139424226
113942422X
9781139422185
1139422189
9781139151702
1139151703
9781139420136
1139420135

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Charles Dickens and 'Boz'.DDC classification:

823/.8 23

LOC classification:

PR4588 .P38 2012eb

Other classification:

18.05
LIT004120

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Contents:

Cover; CHARLES DICKENS AND "BOZ"; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Epigraphs; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Bibliography; Index.

Summary: "Dickens' rise to fame and his world-wide popularity were by no means inevitable. He started out with no clear career in mind, drifting in and out of the theatre, journalism and editing before finding unexpected success as a creative writer. Taking account of everything known about Dickens's apprentice years, Robert L. Patten narrates the fierce struggle Dickens then had to create an alter ego, Boz, and later to contain and extinguish him. His revision of Dickens' biography in the context of early Victorian social and political history and print culture opens up a more unstable, yet more fascinating, portrait of Dickens. The book tells the story of how Dickens created an authorial persona that highlighted certain attributes and concealed others about his life, talent and publications. This complicated narrative of struggle, determination, dead ends and new beginnings is as gripping as one of Dickens' own novels"-- Provided by publisher

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"Dickens' rise to fame and his world-wide popularity were by no means inevitable. He started out with no clear career in mind, drifting in and out of the theatre, journalism and editing before finding unexpected success as a creative writer. Taking account of everything known about Dickens's apprentice years, Robert L. Patten narrates the fierce struggle Dickens then had to create an alter ego, Boz, and later to contain and extinguish him. His revision of Dickens' biography in the context of early Victorian social and political history and print culture opens up a more unstable, yet more fascinating, portrait of Dickens. The book tells the story of how Dickens created an authorial persona that highlighted certain attributes and concealed others about his life, talent and publications. This complicated narrative of struggle, determination, dead ends and new beginnings is as gripping as one of Dickens' own novels"-- Provided by publisher

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; CHARLES DICKENS AND "BOZ"; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Epigraphs; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Bibliography; Index.

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