Books written by Robert L. Patten

  • Charles Dickens and 'Boz': The Birth of the Industrial-Age Author
    Charles Dickens and 'Boz': The Birth of the Industrial-Age Author

    There are many fine studies of the Clock illustrations, starting with Kitton's Dickens and His Illustrators, and including Joan Stevens's canonical article “'Woodcuts Dropped into the Text': The Illustrations in The Old Curiosity Shop ...

  • The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens
    The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens

    In the summer of 1857 Dickens met the Ternan family of actresses when they took part in a Manchester performance of his play ... 46 Michael Slater, The Great Charles Dickens Scandal (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012).

  • The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens
    The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens

    Hugh Craig and Arthur F. Kinney, Shakespeare, Computers, and the Mystery of Authorship (Cambridge: Cambridge University ... 'To UNKNOWN CORRESPONDENT, [1850–8 JUNE 1870]', The Charles Dickens Letters Project, accessed 20 August 2016, ...

  • Dickens and Victorian Print Cultures
    Dickens and Victorian Print Cultures

    Altick, R. D. (1989), Writers, Readers, and Occasions: Selected Essays on Victorian Literature and Life ... Mitch, D. F. (1992), The Rise of Popular Literacy in Victorian England (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press).

  • George Cruikshank: A Revaluation
    George Cruikshank: A Revaluation

    The introduction by John Fowles has been retained and an index has been added. In addition to the many Cruikshank illustrations reproduced in the volume, there are original drawings by contemporary artists David Levine and Ronald Searle.

  • George Cruikshank's Life, Times and Art: Volume 1, 1792-1835
    George Cruikshank's Life, Times and Art: Volume 1, 1792-1835

    George Cruikshank's Life, Times and Art: Volume 1, 1792-1835

  • Charles Dickens and 'Boz': The Birth of the Industrial-Age Author
    Charles Dickens and 'Boz': The Birth of the Industrial-Age Author

    ... rapidly becoming Dickens's principal advisor in all matters pertaining to his writings. “I need not tell you that this is calculated to injure me most seriously, or that I have a very natural and most decided objection to being ...

  • Literature in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century British Publishing and Reading Practices
    Literature in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century British Publishing and Reading Practices

    This wide-ranging and innovative collection of essays addresses important issues in cultural studies and the history of the book.

  • Dickens, Death, and Christmas
    Dickens, Death, and Christmas

    ... Dickens , ed . Eileen Gillooly and Deirdre David ( Columbus : Ohio State University Press , 2009 ) , 75–92 . Bowles , Hugo , Dickens and the Stenographic Mind ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2019 ) . Bown , Nicola , Carolyn Burdett ...

  • Charles Dickens and His Publishers
    Charles Dickens and His Publishers

    This fascinating volume relates the story of Dicken's social encounters, violent breaches, and uneasy alliances with his publishers and illustrates how the conditions of publishing had much to do with the shape and success of Dicken's ...