1st Edition

Dickens at Work Routledge Library Editions: Charles Dickens Volume 1

By John Butt, Kathleen Tillotson Copyright 1957
246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

This book marks a new departure in the study of Dickens. The authors make use of first-hand evidence of Dickens’ actual methods and conditions of work; much of this evidence is examined and co-ordinated here for the first time. It includes Dickens’ detailed manuscript notes for novels, with a complete transcript of these for every instalment and chapter of David Copperfield. Seven other books are... Read more

1. Dickens as a Serial Novelist  2. Sketches by Boz: Collection and Revision  3. From Sketches to Novel: Pickwick Papers  4. Barnaby Rudge: The First Projected Novel  5. Dombey and Son: Design and Execution  6. David Copperfield Month by Month  7. The Topicality of Bleak House  8. Hard Times: The Problems of a Weekly Serial  9. From "Nobody’s Fault" to Little Dorrit

Biography

John Butt, Kathleen Tillotson