Download or read book Dickens the Journalist written by J. Drew and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-10-16 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dickens's career as a journalist spanned four decades, during which he wrote over 350 articles: reports, sketches, reviews, leaders, exposés, satires and reminiscences. This project offers the first critical guide to over a million words of vintage Dickens, which have been much overlooked in continuous assessments and re-assessments of his novels. It provides both a biographical and socio-historical account of the main phases of Dickens's career as a journalist, and a critical assessment of the thematic and stylistic development of his work.