Journalism and Correspondence

Abstract

This chapter discusses recent developments in digital technologies and their application to Dickens’s overlapping roles as correspondent, reporter, journalist, and editor. It argues that open-access digitization, digital cataloguing, and computational stylistics open up new possibilities for our understanding of Dickens and his mediation of these roles, revealing new information as to subject matter, style, trends in editorial policy, and patterns of contribution. This information challenges previous author-centred narratives regarding Dickens’s progression from reporter and sketch artist to journalist and editor as well as long-held assumptions regarding his journals Household Words and All the Year Round. In this, digitization follows the current trend in scholarship towards the destabilization of the traditional ideas of Dickens as journalist and editor and acknowledges the changeable and sometimes contradictory nature of his fulfilment of these roles and points to new areas of interest.

حــــــــــالات زواج مضطربــــــة في روايـــــــــــة تشــــــــــارلز ديكنز أوقــــــــــات عصيبـــــــة

“…Hard Times provides an autobiographical account of the life of Charles Dickens who suffered from his terrible marriage to Catherine Hogarth for twenty-two years before their separation. Dickens speaks of the failure of his marriage (as cited in Mackenzie & Mackenzie, 1979): "it is all despairingly over. A dismal failure has to be borne … What a blighted and wasted life my marriage has been" (p. 299).…”