| Description |
1 online resource (389 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-370) and index. |
| Summary |
Becoming Dickens 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, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst examines a remarkable double transformation: in reinventing himself Dickens reinvented the form of the novel. It was a high-stakes gamble, and Dickens never forgot how differently things could have turned out. From his traumatized childhood to the suicide of his first collaborator and the sudden death of the woman who had a good claim to being the love of his life, Dickens faced powerful obstacles. Douglas-Fairhurst's provocative new biography, focused on the 1830s, portrays a restless and uncertain Dickens who could not decide on the career path he should take and would never feel secure in his considerable achievements--From publisher description. |
| Contents |
Prologue : Somebody and nobody -- Lost and found -- The clerk's tale -- Up in the gallery -- Mr Dickin -- "Here we are!" -- Becoming Boz -- The moving age -- "Pickwick, triumphant" -- [Novelist] Writer -- Dickens at home -- Is she his wife? -- Being Dickens -- Postscript : Signing off. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. (OCoLC)fst00028294
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- analys och tolkning.
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Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
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Novelists, English. (OCoLC)fst01039718
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Engelska författare -- 1800-talet -- biografi.
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| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert. Becoming Dickens. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011 9780674050037 (DLC) 2011004219 (OCoLC)700735598 |
| ISBN |
9780674062764 (electronic bk.) |
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0674062760 (electronic bk.) |
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