This essay treats four recent Dickens biographies: Michael Slater's Charles Dickens: A Life Defined by Writing (2009), Claire Tomalin's Charles Dickens: A Life (2011), Robert Douglas-Fairhurst's Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist (2011), and Robert L. Patten's Charles Dickens and “Boz”: The Birth of the Industrial-Age Author (2012). The major features of each one are discussed, in order to demonstrate how they emphasize different aspects of Dickens's personality. The approaches of the biographers encompass the imaginative, the empathetic, the economic, and the lyric; taken together, they offer a richer perspective on the life of the novelist than has previously been possible.
Later Engagements with Dickens's Life
Colombino Laura
2025-01-01
Abstract
This essay treats four recent Dickens biographies: Michael Slater's Charles Dickens: A Life Defined by Writing (2009), Claire Tomalin's Charles Dickens: A Life (2011), Robert Douglas-Fairhurst's Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist (2011), and Robert L. Patten's Charles Dickens and “Boz”: The Birth of the Industrial-Age Author (2012). The major features of each one are discussed, in order to demonstrate how they emphasize different aspects of Dickens's personality. The approaches of the biographers encompass the imaginative, the empathetic, the economic, and the lyric; taken together, they offer a richer perspective on the life of the novelist than has previously been possible.
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