Collaborative Dickens. Melisa Klimaszewski

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      Collaborative Dickens

      Series in Victorian Studies

      Series editors: Joseph McLaughlin and Elizabeth Carolyn Miller

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      Melisa Klimaszewski, Collaborative Dickens: Authorship and Victorian Christmas Periodicals

       COLLABORATIVE DICKENS

      Authorship and Victorian Christmas Periodicals

       Melisa Klimaszewski

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       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Klimaszewski, Melisa, author.

      Title: Collaborative Dickens : authorship and Victorian Christmas periodicals / Melisa Klimaszewski.

      Description: Athens : Ohio University Press, [2019] | Series: Series in Victorian studies | Includes bibliographical references and index.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2019004319| ISBN 9780821423653 (hc : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780821446737 (pdf)

      Subjects: LCSH: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Authorship--Collaboration. | Christmas stories, English--History and criticism.

      Classification: LCC PR4586 .K55 2019 | DDC 823/.8--dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019004319

      This book is dedicated lovingly to Rose Cuschieri, Adam Klimaszewski, and Daniel Klimaszewski for their unwavering support, compassion, and encouragement through countless stumbles.

      ~Inħobbok ħafna

      Contents

       List of Illustrations

       Acknowledgments

       Introduction

       1. Writing Christmas with “a Bunch of People” (1850–51)

       2. Reading in Circles: From Numbers to Rounds (1852–53)

       3. Orderly Travels and Generic Developments (1854–55)

       4. Collaborative Survival and Voices Abroad (1856–57)

       5. Moving Houses and Unsettling Stories (1858–59)

       6. Disconnected Bodies and Troubled Textuality (1860–62)

       7. Bundling Children and Binding Legacies (1863–65)

       8. Coming to a Stop (1866–67)

       Conclusion

       Appendix A. The Complete Christmas Numbers: Contents and Contributors

       Appendix B. Authorship Percentage Charts

       Notes

       Bibliography

       Index

      Illustrations

       Figure I.1. Household Words Office Book

       Figure I.2. Household Words Office Book side view

       Figure I.3. Page from Household Words Office Book

       Figure 5.1. The Haunted House, page 8

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