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Dickens' working notes for his novels / edited with an introduction and notes by Harry Stone.
- Title
- Dickens' working notes for his novels / edited with an introduction and notes by Harry Stone.
- Author
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1987.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PR4586 .D5 1987 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxxv, 393 p. : ill.; 32 cm.
- Summary
- "This volume collects for the first time all of Charles Dickens' extant plans and notes for his novels. Dickens wrote his novels in segments during the course of serial publication. Beginning with Dombey and Son, the sixth novel, he wrote out plans for each segment as he went along, sketching future developments, querying himself about options, noting motifs, establishing recurrent images, working out chronologies, experimenting with names, and, in general, reminding himself of what he had done and what he should do next. Some notes survive from before Dombey and those for a few novels after that are incomplete or abbreviated, but for the most part the plans from Dombey on are full and complete. Each sheet of these notes is reproduced here in actual-size photographic facsimile and is transcribed on the facing page in typographic facsimile, a format that preserves Dickens' holographic nuances and at the same time allows for the instant decipherment of his often difficult hand..." -- Book jacket.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Facsimiles
- Manuscripts
- Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
- Contents
- The old curiosity shop -- Martin Chuzzlewit -- Dombey and Son -- David Copperfield -- Bleak House -- Hard times -- Little Dorrit -- Great expectations -- Our mutual friend -- Edwin Drood.
- ISBN
- 0226145905
- LCCN
- ^^^84023918^
- OCLC
- 11290343
- SCSB-11776663
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library