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"G.K Chesterton’s biography on Charles Dickens: shaping Dickens’s Afterlife."

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When it comes to assessing Dickens’s literary afterlife, Chesterton’s name has a tendency to turn up. Indeed, a widespread notion among Chestertonians is that Chesterton’s eponymous study on Dickens, published in 1906, was a landmark in the appreciation of Dickens’s literary reputation. However, to the contemporary reader (especially a foreign reader), such an assertion is inconceivable, given the unrivalled stature of Dickens in the Western canon. And upon closer look, the idea that Chesterton’s biography gave rise to a revival of Dickens appears as a misconception albeit a fruitful one. If indeed Chesterton wrote his study at a threshold moment for Dickens studies, this paper aims to offer a slightly different perspective on the nature of Chesterton’s contribution to Dickens’s afterlife, especially on Dickens studies ?

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hal-03935909 , version 1 (12-01-2023)

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Charlotte Arnautou. "G.K Chesterton’s biography on Charles Dickens: shaping Dickens’s Afterlife.". After Dickens - Annual Dickens Conference, Dickens Fellowship, Dec 2016, University of York (GB), United Kingdom. ⟨hal-03935909⟩
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