Abstract

Taking its cue from the "work and leisure" dialectic which formed the principal theme for the 2011 annual RSVP conference, the essay examines how the business of conducting two successful mid-century magazines, Household Words and All the Year Round, enabled founding editor Charles Dickens to employ narrative strategies emphasising idleness, relaxation, and an "uncommercial" approach to national affairs. The various methods adopted by the editorial team to unify the contents of what might otherwise have remained a directionless miscellany are explored, drawing on the author's experience of re-presenting the same material in the recentlyreleased open access edition, Dickens Journals Online.

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