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Charles Dickens and Joseph Parkinson: Disentangling Composite Authorship in All the Year Round
Ist Teil von
Dickens quarterly, 2018-12, Vol.35 (4), p.303-349
Ort / Verlag
Oxford: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2018
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Literature Online (LION eBooks)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
[...]there is an evocative account in one of Parkinson’s essays of a visit to an east-end opium den, which features many elements that seem to serve as prefigurations of the opening chapter of Edwin Drood (“Lazarus, Lotus-Eating”). [...]page of memorandum from Dickens to Joseph Parkinson, with instructions for the composition of “What is Sensational?” By kind permission of the Rare Book Department, Free Library of Philadelphia. In all, 25 validation runs were carried out; in these, 10 of the 12 Dickens articles were selected one or more times, and 19 of the 54 Parkinson articles were selected one or more times. [...]2 Dickens articles and 25 Parkinson articles were never withdrawn as test samples. A fourth and final experiment was conducted, to determine if anything more definitive could be established concerning the balance of authorship between Dickens and Parkinson, in the composite piece “What is Sensational?”, if works of less “diluted” or “influenced” authorship could be compared – that is, works by the two authors for which no cross-fertilisation was evident. [...]the “main voice” of “What is Sensational?” was compared against 18 Dickens articles from All the Year Round, and the 12 Parkinson articles from the Daily News (because the latter were written for a newspaper over which Dickens had no editorial control in the 1860s, they could be considered “purer” Parkinson).