Duane DeVries

The internationally acclaimed Annotated Bibliography of Charles Dickens by Professor Duane DeVries. Vol 3, Part 2.

Volume 3 - in two parts - of the internationally acclaimed Annotated Bibliography of Charles Dickens by Professor Duane DeVries.

The internationally acclaimed Annotated Bibliography of Charles Dickens by Professor Duane DeVries. Vol 4, Part 1

The internationally acclaimed Annotated Bibliography of Charles Dickens by Professor Duane DeVries. Vol.4 Part 2.

This extensive new work joins the internationally acclaimed series of bibliographies of Charles Dickens's work edited by Professor Duane DeVries. The detailed listings, full annotations, and evaluative notes will prove indispensable to scholars. The two volumes represent many years of work by the distinguished Dickens scholar Professor C. Hanna.

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.At one bound he leapt from nowhere to the summit of literary success and fame. How did he do it?This is the classic modern study of how Dickens staged his grand entrance. Critics of his day thought he did so without warning or fanfare. How was it possible for an obscure newspaper reporter to write, in his early twenties, such a brilliant, popular work as Pickwick? Where did he acquire the nicety of observation, the fineness of tact, the exquisite humour, the wit, heartiness, sympathy with all things good and beautiful in human nature, the perception of character, the pathos, and accuracy of description?This work is a thorough and illuminating study of this central question, and fully illuminates Dickens's early development.

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. At one bound he leapt from nowhere to the summit of literary success and fame. How did he do it? This is the classic modern study of how Dickens staged his grand entrance. Critics of his day thought he did so without warning or fanfare. How was it possible for an obscure newspaper reporter to write, in his early twenties, such a brilliant, popular work as Pickwick? Where did he acquire the nicety of observation, the fineness of tact, the exquisite humour, the wit, heartiness, sympathy with all things good and beautiful in human nature, the perception of character, the pathos, and accuracy of description? This work is a thorough and illuminating study of this central question, and fully illuminates Dickens's early development.