Dickens, Reade, And Collins, Sensation Novelists; a Study in the Conditions And Theories of Novel Writing in Victorian England
The book Dickens, Reade, And Collins, Sensation Novelists; a Study in the Conditions And Theories of Novel Writing in Victorian England was written by author Phillips, Walter Clarke, 1881- Here you can read free online of Dickens, Reade, And Collins, Sensation Novelists; a Study in the Conditions And Theories of Novel Writing in Victorian England book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Dickens, Reade, And Collins, Sensation Novelists; a Study in the Conditions And Theories of Novel Writing in Victorian England a good or bad book?
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The gist of the whole matter is as foUows: "That Mr. Colburn has in his time published some good books we do not deny. He commenced his career respectably, and gave the world simdry publica- tions of a reputable nature, which estabhshed his name as an eligible publisher. Mr. Colburn, in connection with his 78 DICKENS, BEADE, AND COLLINS partner,* Mr. Bentley, is still in possession of notoriety; and we affirm, boldly and seriously, that, relying on his former fame, which had been unduly spread ...through paid puffs and juggling quackery, he now publishes . . . works which are not only immeasurably below the standard of even correct writing, — we mean correct Uterally, in point of language and style, — but that he is a culpable dis- seminator of novels abounding in heartless profligacy, gross- ness, and obscenity." The essential fact, obviously, is that Colbum is the pub- lisher of the new regime. Generous to his writers and per- sonally genial, he was engaged in selling the kind of thing "the pubUc want." How energetically he went about the business appears in one of John Blackwood's stories.
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