Dickens and the Myth of the Reader
- Submitting institution
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Canterbury Christ Church University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- U27.013
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781138230323
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 90,000-word book involved substantial research over five years across the entire Dickens corpus (including c. 14,000 letters in addition to his novels and journalism). The research involved both traditional literary critical and history of reading approaches. It is the first sustained study of the mutual dependence of Dickens’s letters and his fiction, demonstrating how the boundaries between private and public writing are subject to constant disruption, as imaginative hierarchies are both destabilised and reinforced.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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