Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies
R Patten editor J Bowen editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Palgrave USA
Published:11th Nov '05
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ROBERT L. PATTEN is Autrey Professor in Humanities in the Department of English at Rice University, USA. He is editor of SEL, has written Dickens and His Publishers, an award-winning two-volume biography of the graphic artist George Cruickshank, and articles on the many Victorian writers and artists. He is currently completing a book entitled Dickens and the Industrial Strength Author. JOHN BOWEN is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of York, UK. He is the author of Other Dickens: Pickwick to Chuzzlewit and has edited Dickens's B
Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the study of one of the most important Victorian novelists.Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the study of one of the most important Victorian novelists. Its editors, Robert L. Patten and John Bowen, are leading authorities on Dickens and the international team of contributors they have assembled contains some of the most exciting critics of nineteenth-century fiction writing today. The book covers the whole range of Dickens's writing and criticism about it, including biographical, theoretical and historical approaches. It is based on up-to-the-minute research and written in a lively and engaging way, and will be essential reading for all students and scholars of this canonical writer.
'Bob Patten and John Bowen's collection is a state-of-the art guide to Dickens studies. The editors have assembled a distinguished team of contributors, who clearly and succinctly set forth illuminating perspectives on crucial issues of modern scholarship. Wide-ranging, detailed, and remarkably coherent, it is the best single volume of essays since George Ford and Lauriat Lane's classic The Dickens Critics first appeared nearly half a century ago, and a must for every serious student of Dickens.' - Paul Schlicke, President of the International Dickens Fellowship and Senior Lecturer in English, University of Aberdeen, UK
'[A] volume of signal importance...a model of its kind' - Nicola Bradbury, The Dickensian
ISBN: 9781403912862
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334 pages
2006 ed.