Charles Dickens and His Publishers - Couverture rigide

Patten, Professor Robert L.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0198120761 ISBN 13 : 9780198120766

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1979

Synopsis

Book by Patten Robert Lowry

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In considering the whole range of Dickens' relations with his English and overseas publishers, Professor Patten relates the story of the novelist's social encounters, violent breaches, and uneasy alliances with John Macrone, Richard Bentley, Edward and Frederic Chapman, William Hall, Bernhard Tauchnitz, William Bradbury, F M Evans, and his American publishers in a compelling record of personal and professional associations. Private drama is subordinated to a narrative of 'a very special kind of venture', serial publication. Drawing extensively on the accounts rendered to Dickens by Bradbury and Evans, and Chapman and Hall every six months from 1846, Robert Patten traces the fluctuating fortunes of each of the books, from Sketches by Boz to Edwin Drood. He shows how Dickens took advantage of developments in the law, popular literacy, and the new techniques of publishing through the periodical issue of his writings, and through four widely-circulated reprint series that vastly extended the market for his work. He identifies the sources and size of Dicken's income, comparing it to that of his contemporaries; and the costs and sales, the printing history, and the profits and losses on all books where Dickens shared copyright are set out in detail in four appendices. The study skilfully establishes that the conditions of publishing had much to do with the shape and success of Dicken's career.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Professor Patten is the author of Charles Dickens and His Publishers and George Cruikshank's Life, Times, and Art, which was recently chosen by the Guardian as the best biography of the decade. He has held Fulbright, Guggenheim, and NEH fellowships and has served as editor of SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900. He has been a fellow at the National Humanities Center and at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. He is president of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing and is a Phi Beta Kappa Couper Scholar. Professor Patten teaches courses in 19th-century British literature and art, the European novel, and the history of the book.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0198120761
• ISBN 13: 9780198120766
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 518