Dickens's Apprentice Years: The Making of a Novelist New Preface and Edition Contributor(s): DeVries, Duane (Author) |
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ISBN: 191145482X ISBN-13: 9781911454823 Publisher: Edward Everett Root OUR PRICE: $52.20 Product Type: Hardcover Published: September 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century |
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6" W x 9" (1.05 lbs) 220 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
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Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): DeVries, Duane: - Professor DeVries is a leading scholar and bibliographer of Dickens. He is a retired Associate Professor of English from Polytechnic Institute of New York University, where he served as Head of the Department of Humanities and Communications. He has edited Bleak House for the Crowell Critical Library (1971); and served as editor of Dickens Studies Newsletter; as associate general editor of the Gale Information Guides to American Literature, English Literature, and World Literatures in English, a 42-volume biographical series; as general editor of The Garland Dickens Bibliographies (11 volumes) and its replacement The Dickens Bibliographies (AMS Press, 3 volumes, 3 forthcoming). He has most recently, published the first two volumes of General Studies of Charles Dickens: An Annotated Bibliography (AMS Press, 2004, 2010). A third volume is in press and a fourth will be published in 2018. |