The Great Charles Dickens Scandal - Couverture souple

Slater, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0300205287 ISBN 13 : 9780300205282

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Was Charles Dickens the secret lover of young actress Nelly Ternan? How would a man of his renown have hidden such an affair? This engaging book is the first complete account of the scandal that threatened to ruin Dickens - now dramatised as The Invisible Woman, a 2014 BBC film starring Ralph Fiennes - and of the cover-up and sensational revelations that continued for generations. With its tale of intrigue and a cast of well-known figures from Thackeray and Shaw to Orwell and Edmund Wilson, this absorbing book will delight Dickens and detection fans alike.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

'Impeccably sourced and dashingly narrated... Slater sinks his teeth into the dirty subject of reputation making - and breaking - with a relish that almost made me forget (I mean this as a compliment) that author's status as an eminent academic.' (Miranda Seymour, Sunday Telegraph) 'Deliciously dry and compulsively readable... Wise, witty and highly entertaining.' (Simon Callow, The Guardian) 'An elegant little history of how the truth came out, drop by scandalous drop.' (John Bowen, Times Literary Supplement) 'Exhaustively scholarly and very readable... Slater is an astute and objective commentator. This is a gripping account of a literary scandal.' (The Lady) --Sunday Telegraph, The Guardian, TLS, The Lady

Biographie de l'auteur :

Michael Slater is Emeritus Professor of Victorian Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London, past President of the International Dickens Fellowship and of the Dickens Society of America, and former editor of the journal The Dickensian. He has taught and continues to lecture widely in the USA, across Europe, and in Australasia and the Far East. He is the author of Charles Dickens (Yale UP, 2009; pb 2011), Dickens and Women (Dent, 1983) and Douglas Jerrold (Duckworth, 2002), and editor of the Uniform Edition of Dickens's Journalism (4 volumes, 1994-2000).

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0300205287
• ISBN 13: 9780300205282
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 232