Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. Household Words: 1850-1859 2. All The Year Round: 1859-1870 3. Chorley's World and All The Year Round 4. Music and Friendship Epilogue Notes Appendix Works Cited Index

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Explores the coverage of music in the journals edited by Dickens and how they reflect Dickens' own attitude to music and its social role.

About the Author

Robert Terrell Bledsoe is Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at El Paso, USA. He is the author of Henry Fothergill Chorley: Victorian Journalist and has contributed articles to leading Victorian Studies journals and major reference works.

Reviews

In Dickens, Journalism, Music Robert Bledsoeoffers a meticulously thorough and informative exploration of musical topics treated in Household Words and All the Year Round, and further examines Dickens's personal relations with musicians and music critics. Alert to contradictions and developments between articles which Dickens published over nearly twenty years, Bledsoe provides judicious assessment of Dickens's musical tastes. He thoughtfully discusses music in relation to Dickens's wider concerns and convincingly demonstrates its importance for an understanding of both his life and works.
*Dr Paul Schlicke, Honorary Senior Lecturer at the School of Language & Literature, University of Aberdeen, UK.*

A hugely welcome addition to the new wave of scholarly work on Dickens's weekly journals ... Professor Bledsoe is an insightful and careful analyst of a considerable body of neglected material. He illuminates out the importance of music to Dickens's art and social thinking.
*Professor John M. L. Drew, University of Buckingham*

A volume in the Continuum Literary Studies series, this work’s title could not be more appropriate, for it is, if nothing else, compendious – the interrelationship of Dickens and Journalism and Music in all its aspect. It is surely a definitive study of its subject.
*The Dickensian*