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Sketches by Boz is the first volume of the new Oxford Dickens. This critical edition of the collection of sixty pieces which first appeared as contributions to magazines and newspapers in the mid 1830s presents afresh his sharp and often satirical observation of social situations and London characters.

Produktbeschreibung
Sketches by Boz is the first volume of the new Oxford Dickens. This critical edition of the collection of sixty pieces which first appeared as contributions to magazines and newspapers in the mid 1830s presents afresh his sharp and often satirical observation of social situations and London characters.
Autorenporträt
Paul Schlicke was Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Aberdeen until his retirement. Born in the United States, he took his BA from Stanford University, and his PhD from the University of California, San Diego, where he was a National Defense Education Act Fellow. He is general editor of the Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens (1999), author of Dickens and Popular Entertainment (1985), compiler of the Dickens entry for the 3rd edition of the Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (1999) and co-compiler of The Old Curiosity Shop: An Annotated Bibliography (1988). He has edited Hard Times (1989) and Nicholas Nickleby (1990) for Oxford World's Classics, The Old Curiosity Shop (1995) for Everyman, and The Pickwick Papers for British Heritage Database (2002), and published numerous articles in the Dickensian, Dickens Quarterly, Studies in English Literature, and Dickens Studies Annual. David Hewitt comes from the Scottish Borders; he took his undergraduate degree at the University of Edinburgh and his PhD in Aberdeen with a thesis entitled 'Walter Scott and Society'. His whole academic career was spent at the University of Aberdeen, where he finished as the Regius Chalmers Professor of English Literature, a chair originally created for another great textual editor, Sir Herbert Grierson. His major work was as editor-in-chief of the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels, which appeared in thirty over twenty years from 1993 to 2012.