An original study of Dickens' early career and the way he constructed his literary reputation.

"In considering the whole range of Dickens's relations with his English and foreign publishers, Professor Patten relates the story of the novelist's social encounters, violent breaches, and uneasy alliances with John Macrone, Richard ...

This study considers manifestations of Christmas in Dickens's work and explores how death, time, change, charity, love, and religious belief provide a fresh basis on which to assess how Dickens conceived of Christmas and New Year.

. Patten provides the fullest account ever of Cruikshank's many friendships and contextualizes his art, showing how the subjects, motifs, mediums, treatments, publishers, and audiences affected the artist's production.

In this first volume of Robert Patten's two-volume biography, which covers the artist's Regency caricatures and early book illustrations, Patten demonstrates the ways in which Cruikshank was, as his contemporaries frequently declared, the ...

A significant portion of the collection is dedicated to correspondence between Patten and Jordan Konisky, Vice Provost for Research and Graduate Studies from 1996-2006.