Charles Dickens
Subtitle: a literary life
By: Grahame Smith.
Series: Literary lives; Literary lives (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
Subjects: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.; Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-186) and index.