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?
This is the classic modern study of how Dickens staged his grand entrance. Critics of his day thought he did so without warning or fanfare. How was it possible for an obscure newspaper reporter to write, in his early twenties, such a brilliant, popular work as Pickwick? Where did he acquire the nicety of observation, the fineness of tact, the exquisite humour, the wit, heartiness, sympathy with all things good and beautiful in human nature, the perception of character, the pathos, and accuracy of description?
This work is a thorough and illuminating study of this central question, and fully illuminates Dickens's early development.
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"These four updated seminal studies belong in any core reference collection on the life and works of Dickens, one of today’s greatest global literary giants.” — Professor Edward Guiliano, co-editor Dickens Studies Annual.
“examines every shred of extant information about Dickens to try to answer the question of the sudden flowering of talent.” - Choice.
“exemplary scholarship.” - R. L. Patten, Dickens Studies Newsletter.
a “massive compilation of research...a careful reading of the original texts...a book which every student and admirer of Dickens will profit from and enjoy.” - F. S. Schwarzbach, The Dickensian.
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