Oliver Twist (Norton Critical Editions)

by Dickens, Charles

• ISBN13: 9780393962925
• ISBN10: 039396292X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-12-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

This Norton Critical Edition of a Dickens favorite reprints the 1846 text, the last edition of the novel substantially revised by Dickens and the one that most clearly reflects his authorial intentions.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
The Text of Oliver Twist
The Author's Preface to the Third Edition (1841)	3	(6)
Cover Illustration by George Cruikshank (Part I, January 1846)	9	(2)
Title Page for the 1846 One-Volume Edition	11	(2)
The Contents of Oliver Twist	13	(4)
Oliver Twist (The Edition of 1846)	17	(345)
Illustration: Oliver asking for more (Cruikshank)	28	(84)
Illustration: Oliver's reception by Fagin and the boys (Cruikshank)	112	(250)
Backgrounds and Sources
A Map of the London of Oliver Twist (1828)	362	(3)
The Poor Law Debate	365	(7)
The Poor Law Riots	372	(2)
Letters About Oliver Twist (1837-64)	374	(5)
Charles Dickens
To Richard Bentley, January 24, 1837	374	(1)
To Richard Bentley, May 8, 1837	375	(1)
To Thomas Beard, May 17, 1837	375	(1)
To Thomas Haines, June 3, 1837	376	(1)
To George Cruikshank, October 13, 1837	376	(1)
To John Forster, Mid-December 1837	377	(1)
To Richard Bentley, October 3, 1838	377	(1)
To John Forster, October 6 or 13, 1838	377	(1)
To Eliza Davis, July 10, 1963	378	(1)
To Eliza David, November 16, 1864	378	(1)
Table of Installments and Chapter-Division in Different Editions of Oliver Twist	379	(2)
An Appeal to Fallen Women	381	(3)
Charles Dickens
Sikes and Nancy	384	(15)
Charles Dickens
Early Reviews
From The Examiner, September 10, 1837	399	(2)
John Forster
From the Spectator, November 24, 1838	401	(1)
Anonymous
From The Literary Gazette, November 24, 1838	402	(1)
Anonymous
From Monthly Review, January 1839	403	(2)
Anonymous
From Quarterly Review, 1839	405	(3)
Richard Ford
On Oliver Twist (1839-40)	408	(2)
William Makepeace Thackeray
Charles Dickens and His Works (April 1840)	410	(5)
Anonymous
Literary Recipes (August 1841)	415	(4)
Anonymous
Criticism
On Oliver Twist and Cruikshank	419	(2)
Henry James
Oliver Twist	421	(5)
George Gissing
The Young Dickens	426	(6)
Graham Greene
Oliver Twist	432	(16)
J. Hillis Miller
Dickens and the Jews	448	(6)
Harry Stone
Dickens and Murder	454	(7)
Philip Collins
Oliver Twist: ``Things as they really are''	461	(8)
John Bayley
The Newgate Novel and the Moral Argument, 1837-40	469	(9)
Keith Hollingsworth
Who Is Fagin?	478	(17)
Steven Marcus
The Social and Political Issues	495	(5)
Monroe Engel
Oliver Twist: Laughter and the Rhetoric of Attack	500	(8)
James R. Kincaid
On Reading Oliver Twist	508	(7)
Michael Slater
Oliver Twist and Charity	515	(10)
Dennis Walder
The Text and Plan of Oliver Twist	525	(12)
Burton M. Wheeler
Oliver Twist and Christian Scripture	537	(15)
Janet Larson
The Creation of Oliver Twist	552	(5)
Fred Kaplan
``The Old Story'' and Inside Stories: Modish Fiction and Fictional Modes in Oliver Twist	557	(17)
Robert Tracy
Oliver Twist and the Police	574	(6)
David Miller
The Purloined Handkerchief	580	(13)
John O. Jordan
The Loves of Oliver Twist	593	(16)
Garry Wills
A Chronology	609	(2)
Charles Dickens
Selected Bibliography	611