David Copperfield (Norton Critical Editions)

by Dickens, Charles; Buckley, Jerome H.

• ISBN13: 9780393958287
• ISBN10: 0393958280
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1989-11-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

The editor has made necessary typographical corrections and carefullyintroduced and annotated the text for the student reader. Dickens' number plans for David Copperfield , which reveal his practiceboth as a serial writer and as a craftsman, are also included. "Backgrounds" focuses on Dickens' personal involvement with andresponse to the novel's publication. Included are passages from hisletters relating to David Copperfield , an autobiographical fragment,his preface to the 1869 edition of the novel, and a relevant excerptfrom Little Dorrit. "Criticism" is comprised of twelve essays by distinguished Dickensiansrepresenting a wide range of judgment and analysis. John Forster,Matthew Arnold, E. K. Brown, Gwendolyn B. Needham, Monroe Engel, J.Hillis Miller, Mark Spilka, Harry Stone, Bert G. Hornback, GarrettStewart, Robert L. Patten, and Alexander Walsh provide a variety ofperspectives. A Chronology of Dickens' Life and Works and a Selected Bibliography arealso included.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
The Text of David Copperfield (1850)	1	(762)
A Note on the Illustrations	739	(2)
Number Plans for David Copperfield	741	(22)
Backgrounds	763	(88)
Preface to the 1869 Edition	765	(1)
The Autobiographical Fragment	766	(6)
Passages from Dickens' Letters Relating to David Copperfield	772	(4)
Excerpt from Little Dorrit, Chapter XIII	776	(6)
Criticism
David, Less and More than Dickens	782	(1)
John Forster
Mr. Creakle and the Irish	783	(3)
Matthew Arnold
The Art of ``The Crowded Novel''	786	(8)
E. K. Brown
The Undisciplined Heart of David Copperfield	794	(12)
Gwendolyn B. Needham
The Theme of David Copperfield	806	(4)
Monroe Engel
Dickens' Novel of Memory	810	(7)
J. Hillis Miller
David Copperfield as Psychological Fiction	817	(9)
Mark Spilka
Fairy Tales and Ogres: Dickens' Imagination and David Copperfield	826	(6)
Harry Stone
David's Vocation as Novelist: Frustration and Resolution in David Copperfield	832	(4)
Bert G. Hornback
Mr. Micawber's Novel	836	(7)
Garrett Stewart
Autobiography into Autobiography	843	(3)
Robert L. Patten
A Novelist's Novelist	846	(5)
Alexander Welsh
A Chronology of Dickens' Life and Works	851	(2)
Selected Bibliography	853