Charles Dickens / edited by Philip Collins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Collins, Philip, 1923-2007.

Series:

Critical heritage series.

The critical heritage series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

Dickens, Charles.

English literature--19th century.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (666 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1986.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read the works for themselves.

Contents:

Cover; CHARLES DICKENS: THE CRITICAL HERITAGE; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Notes on the Text; Introduction; THE EARLY WORKS FROM PICKWICK TO NICKLEBY; 1. From an unsigned review of Sketches by Boz, Metropolitan Magazine: March 1836, xv, 77; Pickwick Papers (1836-7); 2. From unsigned reviews of Pickwick Papers, Metropolitan Magazine: May 1836 - May 1837; 3. Unsigned review of Pickwick Papers Nos. I - IX, the Athenaeum: 3 December 1836, 841-3

4. From an unsigned article, 'Some Thoughts on Arch-Waggery, and in especial, on the Genius of "Boz" ', Court Magazine: April 1837,x, 184-75. Miss Mary Russell Mitford on Pickwick Papers: 1837; 6. [John Forster], from an unsigned review of Pickwick Papers, No. XV, Examiner: 2 July 1837, 421-2; 7. W. M. Thackeray on Pickwick Papers, in The Paris Sketch Book: 1840 (Works, Biographical Edition (1898-9), v, 80); 8. C. S. Calverley, from 'An Examination Paper: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club': Fly Leaves (Cambridge, 1872), 121-4

9. '[Arthur Locker?]' from 'Charles Dickens' Graphic: 18 June 1870, 687 Oliver Twist (1837-9); 10. From an unsigned review of Oliver Twist in the Spectator: 24 November 1838, xi, 1114-6; 11. Queen Victoria, from her diaries 1838-9; 12. [W. M. Thackeray], from 'Going to see a man hanged', Fraser's Magazine: August 1840, xxii, 154-5 (Works, iii, 436-7); 13. From an unsigned article, 'Literary Recipes', Punch: 7 August 1841, i, 39; Nicholas Nickleby (1838-9); 14. [John Forster], from an unsigned review of Nicholas Nickleby, Examiner: 27 October 1839, 677-8; Estimates of Dickens's early works

15. [Charles Buller], from 'The Works of Dickens', London and Westminster Review: July 1837, xxix, 194-21516. [Abraham Hayward ?], from an unsigned review of Pickwick Nos. I-XVII, and Sketches by Boz, in the Quarterly Review: October 1837, lix, 484-518; 17. [G. H. Lewes?], from a review of Sketches, Pickwick, and Oliver Twist, in the National Magazine and Monthly Critic: December 1837, i, 445-9; 18. From an unsigned review, 'Boz and his Nicholas Nickleby', Spectator: 31 March 1838, xi, 304

19. [Thomas Henry Lister], from a review of Sketches (1st and 2nd Series), Pickwick, Nickleby, and Oliver Twist, Edinburgh Review: October 1838, lxviii, 75-9720. Unsigned notice, 'Loose Thoughts', Fraser's Magazine: October 1838, xviii, 500; 21. From an unsigned review of Oliver Twist, Literary Gazette: 24 November 1838, 741; 22. [Richard Ford], from, an unsigned review, Quarterly Review: June 1839, lxvi, 83-102; 23. From an unsigned notice, 'Charles Dickens and his Works,' Fraser's Magazine: April 1840, xxi, 381-400; MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK: 4 April 1840 - 27 November 1841

24. From unsigned reviews, Metropolitan Magazine: 1840-1

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliography and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780746308103

0746308108

9781134781447

113478144X

9781134781454

1134781458

9781280115271

1280115270

9780203194751

0203194756

9780203286234

0203286235

OCLC:

144618813