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Author:

Patten, Robert L., author.

Title:

Charles Dickens and his publishers / by Robert L. Patten.

Edition:

Second edition.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xxii, 441 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimilies ; 24 cm

Subject:

Dickens, Charles,--1812-1870--Relations with publishers.
Dickens, Charles,--1812-1870.
Authors and publishers--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Serial publication of books--History--19th century.
Novelists, English--19th century--Biography.
Authors and publishers.
Novelists, English.
Relations with publishers.
Serial publication of books.
Great Britain.
1800-1899
Biography.
History.

Notes:

First edition published in 1978. Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-425) and index.

Contents:

The professional author -- Sketches by Boz and Macrone -- Pickwick Papers and the development of serial fiction -- Dickens and the Burlington Street Brigand -- 'The Best of Booksellers Past, Present, or to Come' -- Master Humphrey's Clock: 'wind, wind, wind' -- Trouble in Eden: American Notes and Martin Chuzzlewit -- The break -- With Bradbury and Evans -- Dombey and Son, 'the great success' -- David Copperfield and the cheap edition -- Bleak House and the literary croesus -- Working the copywrights -- Return to Chapman and Hall -- 'The end' -- The audience widens -- Appendices. Sales and profits of Dickens works, 1846-70 -- The printing history of Dickens monthly serials, 1846-70 -- Income from Dicken's works for Dickens, Bradbury and Evans, and Chapman and Hall, 1846-70 -- Income from Household Works and All the Year Round.

ISBN:

9780198807346
0198807341

OCLC:

(OCoLC)991676178
(OCoLC)1023827038

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)