Dickens’ Journalism


Volume I, “Sketches by Boz” and Other Early Papers, 1833–1839

Edited by Michael Slater

Out of print


Volume II, “The Amusements of the People” and Other Papers

Edited by Michael Slater

“If you want to know what it was like to walk the streets of London in the early 1830s, nothing will tell you more vividly than Michael Slater’s [book]. The journalistic pieces in it were written while Dickens was still young and unknown.  But they prefigure the obsessions of his fiction—poverty, crime, physical deformity, the pitiless follies of officialdom—and so illustrate the immense debt that 19th-century fiction owed to journalism. . . . Slater’s is the first ever annotated edition of Dickens’ Journalism, and his clarification of the slang and topical references adds greatly to enlightenment and pleasures.” —The Sunday Times

Volume III, “Gone Astray” and Other Papers from Household Words, 1851–59

Edited by Michael Slater

Out of print


Volume IV, “The Uncommercial Traveller” and Other Papers: 1859–70

Edited by Michael Slater and John M. L. Drew

Out of print


Michael Slater is Professor of Victorian Literature at Birkbeck College in the University of London. He is the author of Dickens on America and the Americans, Dickens and Women, and The Intelligent Person's Guide to Dickens. He is also the series editor of the paperback Everyman Dickens. John M. L. Drew is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Buckingham.

 

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