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OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,8/8/2016,SPi Charles Dickens OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,8/8/2016,SPi OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,8/8/2016,SPi Charles Dickens An Introduction JENNY HARTLEY 1 OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,8/8/2016,SPi 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxford,OX26DP, UnitedKingdom OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwide.Oxfordisaregisteredtrademarkof OxfordUniversityPressintheUKandincertainothercountries ©JennyHartley2016 Themoralrightsoftheauthorhavebeenasserted FirstEditionpublishedin2016 Impression:1 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedin aretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans,withoutthe priorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress,orasexpresslypermitted bylaw,bylicenceorundertermsagreedwiththeappropriatereprographics rightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproductionoutsidethescopeofthe aboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment,OxfordUniversityPress,atthe addressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisworkinanyotherform andyoumustimposethissameconditiononanyacquirer PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyOxfordUniversityPress 198MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NY10016,UnitedStatesofAmerica BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2016942476 ISBN 978–0–19–878816–4 PrintedinGreatBritainby ClaysLtd,StIvesplc LinkstothirdpartywebsitesareprovidedbyOxfordingoodfaithand forinformationonly.Oxforddisclaimsanyresponsibilityforthematerials containedinanythirdpartywebsitereferencedinthiswork. OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,8/8/2016,SPi 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 v OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,8/8/2016,SPi OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,8/8/2016,SPi 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 vii OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,8/8/2016,SPi OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,8/8/2016,SPi 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) ix
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