Abstract
Why was Charles Dickens so popularwhen he broke onto the scene in the late 1830s? That's still a real question to ask, but so is another, related question: what did the terms “popular” and “popularity” mean when applied to this novelist at this signal moment in the development of the novel? Writing in theNational Magazine and Monthly Critic: A Journal of Philosophy, Science, Literature, Music, and the Drama– a short-lived monthly designed to publish serious work on various subjects – G. H. Lewes begins his 1837 review of Dickens'sSketches by Boz, Pickwick Papers, andOliver Twistwith a paragraph that worries over the nature of popularity:
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Cultural Studies
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