Charles Dickens (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Edgar Johnson
- First Published: 1952
- Time of Work: 1812–1870
- Setting: England and the United States
- Principal Characters: Charles Dickens, Catherine Hogarth Dickens, Georgina Hogarth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne, William Charles Macready, William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Thomas Carlyle, John Forster
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Novelists, England or English people, Biography, Victorian era or Victorianism
- Locales: United States, England
Form and Content
In 1977, Edgar Johnson drastically abridged his original 1952 biography Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph, eliminating the chapters offering criticism of Dickens’ novels, the footnotes, and the bibliography and cutting down on several other chapters. He also revised the book in accordance with new scholarly evidence. The result is a highly readable biography that offers an excellent introduction to Dickens and Victorian England.
Drawing on thousands of Dickens’ letters, both published and unpublished, in addition to other primary and...
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