Dickens's literary genius has traditionally been regarded as a creative impulse developed in private. Taking a fresh approach, Grahame Smith draws on a wealth of material to reveal how Dickens's potential as a writer was realised through a highly practical process of literary production. Through analysis of Dickens's struggles with publishers and his response to the expectations of his vast readership and the demands of serialization, we see that Dickens's achievement is in fact the result of close interaction between a writer and his market.

Charles Dickens: A Literary Life (Literary Lives)

Smith, Grahame

Biographies & Memoirs

St.Martin's Press

Human geography is currently undergoing a rapid and far-reaching re-orientation, based on a redefined and much closer relationship with other social sciences. Aimed at a broad student readership, this book focuses on developments in social scientific theory of particular significance in rethinking human geography and on the contribution the geographical imagination can make to good social science.

Human Geography: Society, Space and Social Science

Politics & Social Sciences

Martin, Ron

Gregory, Derek

Social Sciences

Red Globe Press

This study of Dickens's career as a professional writer uses a range of material to describe and analyze the ways in which his work can be seen as a form of literary production. It thus offers a challenge to traditional accounts which stress the private nature of Dickens's genius. Smith focuses on the communal nature of Dickens's achievement in his struggles with publishers, the expectations of a vast public, and the demands of serialization.

Charles Dickens: A Literary Life

Arts & Literature

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

The Achievement of Graham Greene

Barnes & Noble Imports

Dickens, Money and Society

UNIV OF CA PRESS+

Dickens, Money, and Society

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1968.

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

University of California Press

Prentice Hall Europe (a Pearson Education company)

Charles Dickens, Bleak House (Studies in English literature ; no. 54)

Edward Arnold

Dickens and the dream of cinema

Taking his cue from Walter Benjamin's concept of each epoch dreaming the epoch that is to follow, Grahame Smith argues that Dickens' novels can be regarded as proto-filmic in the detail of their language as well as their larger formal structures. This possibility arises from Dickens' creative engagement with the city as metropolis, as it emerges in the London of the 1830s, plus his immersion in the visual entertainments of his day, such as the panorama, as well as technological advances such as the railway which anticipates cinema in some of its major features. The book offers a new way of reading Dickens, through the perspective of a form which he knew nothing of, while simultaneously suggesting an account of his part in the manifold forces that led to the appearance of film towards the end of the 19th century.

Dickens and the Dream of Cinema

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Manchester University Press

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