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Charles Dickens : [a life defined by writing] / Michael Slater.

Slater, Michael.
2009
PR4581 .S6155 2009 (Mapit)
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Title
Charles Dickens : [a life defined by writing] / Michael Slater.
Author
Slater, Michael.
ISBN
9780300112078
0300112076
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2009]
Copyright
©2009
Language
English
Description
xvii, 696 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Call Number
PR4581 .S6155 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
823/.8 B
Summary
This long-awaited biography, twenty years after the last major account, uncovers Dickens the man through the profession in which he excelled. Drawing on a lifetime's study of this prodigiously brilliant figure, Michael Slater explores the personal and emotional life, the high-profile public activities, the relentless travel, the charitable works, the amateur theatricals and the astonishing productivity. But the core focus is Dickens' career as a writer and professional author, covering not only his big novels but also his phenomenal output of other writing--letters, journalism, shorter fiction, plays, verses, essays, writings for children, travel books, speeches, and scripts for his public readings, and the relationships among them. Slater's account, rooted in deep research but written with affection, clarity, and economy, illuminates the context of each of the great novels while locating the life of the author within the imagination that created them. It highlights Dickens' boundless energy, his passion for order and fascination with disorder, his organizational genius, his deep concern for the poor and outrage at indifference towards them, his susceptibility towards young women, his love of Christmas and fairy tales, and his hatred of tyranny.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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1. Early years : from Portsmouth to Chatham, 1812-1822
2. Early years : London, 1822-1827
3. "The Copperfield days", 1828-1835
4. Break-through year, 1836
5. Editing Bentley's Magazine, 1836-1837
6. Periodicals into novels, 1837-1839
7. The Master Humphrey experiment, 1840-1841
8. America brought to book, 1842
9. "The turning-point of his career" : England, Italy, England, 1842-1845
10. An interlude : "daily nooses" and the noose itself, 1846
11. Dombey and other dealings, 1846-1848
12. From Dombey to Copperfield, 1848-1849
13. Interweaving and conducting : writing David Copperfield and beginning Household words, 1849-1850
14. The year of the guild, 1850-1851
15. Writing Bleak house, 1852-1853
16. Writing "For these times", 1853-1854
17. Writing Little Dorrit-among other things, 1855-1857
18. Drama and denouement : performing The Frozen deep and finishing Little Dorrit, 1857
19. Writing off a marriage, 1857-1858
20. Stories into scripts : the public readings, 1858
21. Serials, series and stories : writing for All the year round, 1859-1861
22. Christmas numbers, public readings, and "uncommericial" travels, 1861-1863
23. Back to the "big brushes" : writing Our mutual friend, 1864-1865
24. Last Christmas numbers, 1865-1867
25. Writing, and reading, for America, 1867-1868
26. Disappearances and deaths, 1868-1870
27. Charles Dicken's explanations

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