Duane Devries

Gebundenes Buch

Dickens's Apprentice Years

The Making of a Novelist

Beschreibung

Ever since the fifth instalment of the Pickwick Papers in 1836 scholars have expressed amazement at the virtually overnight emergence of the 24-year-old Charles Dickens from an unknown nobody to the literary lion of the day. At one bound he leapt from nowhere to the summit of literary success and fame. How did he do it?

Autor

Professor Duane DeVries, General Editor of the series, is the leading scholar and bibliographer of Dickens. He is a retired Associate Professor of English from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University where he served as Head of the Department of Humanities and Communications. He edited Bleak House for the Crowell Critical Library (1971) and served as editor of the Dickens Studies Newsletter; as associate general editor of the Gale Information Guide to American Literature, English Literature, and World Literature in English (a 42-volume bibliographical series), and as general editor of the Garland Dickens Bibliographies (11 volumes), and its replacement, The Dickens Bibliographies (AMS Press, 3 volumes). He is also the author of Dickens's Apprentice Years: The Making of a Novelist, the second edition of which was published by EER in September 2017. His final four acclaimed bibliographical volumes of Dickens were recently published by EER.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edward Everett Root
• New preface and expanded bibliography
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9781911454823
• ISBN-10: 191145482X
• Artikelnr.: 48810252