Sketches by Boz is a collection of short pieces published by Charles Dickens in 1836. Dickens' career as a writer of fiction truly began with this collection in 1833, when he started writing humorous sketches for The Morning Chronicle, using the...
SLATER, Vol. 1: Sketches by Boz and Other Early Papers, 1833-39 Michael, ed. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1994, xiii, 580 pp. $37.50. Professor Michael Slater is doing all students of Victorian literature a great service in producing four volumes of Dickens's journalism at...
The Last time Boz Scaggs played in London was way back in the days of Labour government. It was 1976 or '77. No one at the Jazz Cafe on Wednesday remembered precisely, though many of them had been there, and nearly all could have...
In the essay below, English scholar and critic Cox traces the humor in Sketches by Boz, finding that the characters depicted represent for Dickens "the comic situation of man in the universe. "