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• W100719793 abstract "Robert L. Patten, and the Birth of the Industrial Age Author. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.408pp +xvii Robert Pattens new book is his third- or fourth--scholarly blockbuster d follows the definitive study of and his publishers and a magisterial two-volume George Cruikshanks Life, Times and Art. As the latter tide suggests, Patten's ambitions have always been comprehensive ones, and here, despite a seemingly smaller topic, he is similarly ambitious, bringing together an unprecedentedly full account of Dickens's publishing history in different media in the 1830s and 1840s with a sophisticated interpretive account of the novels and associated writings. Publishing history, literary criticism and biography are all at play in his approach, and none is allowed to trump the others. Changing ideas of authorship, technical and legal developments, and the unquenchable creative force of Dickens's writing are brought together to show the complex ways that the books and other writings that we know came into existence and circulation: as early as 1838 had signed contracts for ten different books to be issued as by Boz. The result is a monumental study of a decidedly un-monumental figure, an at times moment-by-moment account of a writer living by his wits, improvising and inventing not just fiction but a new way of being an author. The book scrupulously maps the many twists and turns of Dickens's mercurial invention and self-invention, sifting and revising the sometimes surprising or uncomfortable truths from his own and John Forster's often tendentious later accounts. and the Birth of the Industrial Age Author analyses the first seven or eight years of Dickens's writing career, from Sketches by Boz to the final winding up of Barnaby Rudge and Master Humphrey's Clock in 1841. This is its great creative moment as, seemingly from nowhere, bootstraps his way into an insuperable place in public consciousness and the national life. The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge rocketed the young Boz into public consciousness and everlasting fame. With some exceptions, critics have often been willing to pass by these works in their haste to get to the sunlit uplands of the later, dark Dickens. Patten, by contrast, sees them as decisive for our understanding not only of his phenomenal rise to literary power, but also of his self-understanding of what it was to be a successful in the modern world. He is, for Patten, both pioneer and archetype of the industrial age author who in the course of these few years, takes control of his name, persona and publishing career and in doing so, decisively changes the role of the and the whole complex network--social, publishing, readerly--within which he moved. The book's ambition is to bring together all the different sources--fiction, reviews, editorships, letters, plays, journalism, contracts, advertisements, portraits--not simply to give a synoptic picture of his life and writings in these years, but also to show how much else changed as became and then made himself again. The question at the heart of this account, marked in the title, lies in the different identities signalled by the different signatures and personae and Charles Dickens as the latter at first gradually, then decisively, replaces the former. How inevitable was it that should supplant What are the different psychic and authorial investments in the two names? How much of the change is teleology, how much happenstance? What was lost and what was gained in the process? And what, if any; relationship do those two figures have to Dickens's other, more fleeting, fictional avatars, such as Tibbs and Timothy Sparks? Above all, why should have killed off such a successful name, figure or brand as Boz? For Patten, identifying with the name Charles Dickens, taking on the patronymic, was necessarily something about which had strong, mixed feelings. …" @default.
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