David Copperfield

ThisNortonCriticalEditionreprintstheoriginal1850textofDickens’mostautobiographicalnovel,andhisownpersonalfavorite,includingallofthelinedrawingsbyPhiz.Theeditorhasmadenecessarytypographicalcorrectionsandcarefullyintroducedandannotatedthetextforthestudentreader.Dickens’numberplansforDavidCopperfield,whichrevealhispracticebothasaserialwriterandasacraftsman,arealsoincluded."Backgrounds"focusesonDickens’personalinvolvementwithandresponsetothenovel’spublication.IncludedarepassagesfromhislettersrelatingtoDavidCopperfield,anautobiographicalfragment,hisprefacetothe1869editionofthenovel,andarelevantexcerptfromLittleDorrit."Criticism"iscomprisedoftwelveessaysbydistinguishedDickensiansrepresentingawiderangeofjudgmentandanalysis.JohnForster,MatthewArnold,E.K.Brown,GwendolynB.Needham,MonroeEngel,J.HillisMiller,MarkSpilka,HarryStone,BertG.Hornback,GarrettStewart,RobertL.Patten,andAlexanderWalshprovideavarietyofperspectives.AChronologyofDickens’LifeandWorksandaSelectedBibliographyarealsoincluded.