Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist

by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

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This provocative biography tells the story of how an ambitious young Londoner became England’s greatest novelist. Focused on the 1830s, it portrays a restless, uncertain Dickens who could not decide on a career path. Through twists and turns, the author traces a double transformation: in reinventing himself Dickens reinvented the form of the novel.
  • ISBN13 9780674062764
  • Publish Date 5 October 2011 (first published 3 October 2011)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Harvard University Press
  • Imprint The Belknap Press