Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist


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Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Publisher: Harvard University Press


Becoming Dickens tells the story of how an ambitious young Londoner became England’s greatest novelist. In following the twists and turns of Charles Dickens’s early career, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst examines a remarkable double transformation: in reinventing himself Dickens reinvented the form of the novel. It was a high-stakes gamble, and Dickens never forgot how differently things could have turned out. Like the hero of Dombey and Son, he remained haunted by “what might have been, and what was not.” In his own lifetime, Dickens was without rivals. He styled himself simply “The Inimitable.” But he was not always confident about his standing in the world....

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