Output details
29 - English Language and Literature
University of Oxford
Book title
Becoming Dickens
Type
A - Authored book
Publisher of book
Harvard University Press
ISBN of book
9780674050037
Year of publication
2011
URL
-
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
Yes
Double-weighted statement
Becoming Dickens offers a radical reinterpretation of Dickens's career and a new direction in biography. To return Dickens's career to its original context and assess the historical contingencies of his early writings required extensive historical research, comparing Dickens with his contemporaries and examining the bibliographical environments (encompassing both publishing history and public reception) in which he first made his name. It ranges across the full extent of his published and unpublished works, including journalism, letters and fictional drafts, using archival material from the UK and USA. It is the culmination of 10 years of research into Dickens.
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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