In considering the whole range of Dickens' relations with his
English and overseas publishers, Professor Patten relates the story
of the novelist's social encounters, violent breaches, and uneasy
alliances with John Macrone, Richard Bentley, Edward and Frederic
Chapman, William Hall, Bernhard Tauchnitz, William Bradbury, F. M.
Evans, and his American publishers in a compelling record of
personal and professional associations. Private drama is
subordinated to a narrative of a very special kind of venture',
serial publication. Drawing extensively on the accounts rendered to
Dickens by Bradbury and Evans, and Chapman and Hall every six
months from 1846, Robert Patten traces the fluctuating fortunes of
each of the books, from Sketches by Boz to Edwin Drood. e shows how
Dickens took advantage of developments in the law, popular
literacy, and the new techniques of publishing through the
periodical issue of his writings, and through four
widely-circulated reprint series that vastly extended the market
for his work. He identifies the sources and size of Dicken's
income, comparing it to that of his contemporaries; and the costs
and sales, the printing history, and the profits and losses on all
books where Dickens shared copyright are set out in detail in four
appendices. The study skilfully establishes that the conditions of
publishing had much to do with the shape and success of Dicken's
career. This edition includes two new chapters. The first narrates
how this bibliobiography' came to be conceived, at a time in the
1960s when Dickens was lauded as a genius' but still thought to
have written such lengthy books because he was paid by the line. In
the substantial second addition, Patten details the distribution of
Dickens's estate to his many heirs, traces the devolution of the
patronym as it extended to the family, and then to fans
('Dickensians'), surveys the spread of publishers' to include
presses and texts in translation all over the world, studies the
transfer of Dickens's writing to radio and visual media, and
concludes with an analysis of the audited figures for the sales in
nine countries of over 2000 different editions of Dickens during
the global celebrations for the bicentenary of his birth.
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