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Article: Palgrave MacMillan.("Dickens the Journalist" and "In Memoriam')(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
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PALGRAVE MACMILLAN has published John M. L. Drew's Dickens the Journalist ([pounds sterling]45.00). Mr Drew's aim is 'to survey the texts which compose the "canon" of Dickens's journalism ... and the contexts of their production' and to offer 'an overall critical and historical profile of Dickens the journalist'. This is, he writes, the first such study among all the titles published on Dickens' writings. Indeed, full publication of Dickens' journalistic writings only began appearing in the 1990s when published by Dent and this study is based on that four-volume set. The study refers to other non-fictional writing such as travel books and public letters to give a wider ...