Dickens the Journalist - Hardcover

by J. Drew (Author)

Dickens's career as a journalist spanned four decades, during which he wrote over 350 articles: reports, sketches, reviews, leaders, exposés, satires and reminiscences. This project offers the first critical guide to over a million words of vintage Dickens, which have been much overlooked in continuous assessments and re-assessments of his novels. It provides both a biographical and socio-historical account of the main phases of Dickens's career as a journalist, and a critical assessment of the thematic and stylistic development of his work.

Author Biography

JOHN DREW is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Buckingham. He edited, with Michael Slater, the final volume of the Dent Uniform Edition of Dickens's Journalism (2000), and has recently edited Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray (2001). His doctoral thesis was on The Uncommercial Traveller, and he has also published a number of articles and reviews on aspects of Victorian journalism in The Dickensian and Dickens Quarterly.