Charles Dickens. An introduction

162 Pages·2016·2.228 MB·English

by  Hartley, Jenny

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Charles Dickens
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Charles Dickens
An Introduction
JENNY HARTLEY
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CONTENTS
ListofIllustrations vii
NoteonEditions ix
1. More 1
2. PublicandPrivate 18
3. CharacterandPlot 42
4. CityLaureate 66
5. RadicalDickens 90
6. Dickensian 113
TimelineofDickens’sLifeand
MajorWorks 135
FurtherReading 139
Index 145
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
1 ‘Oliveraskingformore’,byGeorgeCruikshank,1837.The
BodleianLibrary,UniversityofOxford.DunstonB708b,
Illustrationfacingp.9. 5
2 DanielMaclise’s1839portraitofDickensforthe
frontispieceofNicholasNickleby.Reproducedby
courtesyofCharlesDickensMuseum,London. 29
3 TheoriginalmonthlyinstalmentsofLittleDorrit,1855–57.
PhotobyJennyHartley. 30
4 ‘TheEmigrants’,DavidCopperfield,Chapter57,byHablot
K.Browne.©lisztcollection/AlamyStockPhoto. 43
5 ManuscriptofDickens’sworkingnotesforHardTimes.
ReproducedbycourtesyoftheCharlesDickensMuseum,
London. 64
6 ManuscriptofATaleofTwoCities,1859.©Victoriaand
AlbertMuseum,London. 83
7 Late-nineteenth/early-twentieth-centuryporcelainand
fabricpincushionsrepresentinganoddassortmentof
Dickenscharacters.Reproducedbycourtesyofthe
CharlesDickensMuseum,London. 123
8 Apagefrom‘SikesandNancy’,Dickens’sadaptationof
themurderofNancyinOliverTwist.Reproducedby
courtesyoftheCharlesDickensMuseum,London. 132
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NOTE ON EDITIONS
Quotations from Sketches by Boz and Dickens’s journalism
are taken from Dickens’ Journalism, ed. Michael Slater and
John Drew, 4 vols. (J. M. Dent, 1994–2000). Quotations
from Dickens’s letters are taken from The Letters of Charles
Dickens, ed. Graham Storey et al, 12 vols. (Pilgrim Edition,
Clarendon Press, 1965–2002). Quotations from Dickens’s
publicspeechesaretakenfromTheSpeechesofCharlesDickens:
ACompleteEdition,ed.K.J.Fielding(HarvesterWheatsheaf,
1988).QuotationsfromthefollowingworksbyDickensare
takenfromtheOxfordClarendonPresseditionswhereavail-
able, otherwise from the Oxford World’s Classics editions,
andarereproducedbypermissionofOxfordUniversityPress.
A Christmas Carol, ed. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Oxford
UniversityPress,2006)
ATaleofTwoCities,ed.AndrewSanders(OxfordUniversity
Press,2008)
BarnabyRudge,ed.CliveHurst(OxfordUniversityPress,2003)
BleakHouse,ed.StephenGill(OxfordUniversityPress,1996)
DavidCopperfield,ed.NinaBurgis(OxfordUniversityPress,
1981)
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