Research Catalog

Title

The public readings / Charles Dickens ; edited by Philip Collins.

Author

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

Publication

Oxford [Eng.] : Clarendon Press, 1975.

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Details

Additional Authors

Collins, Philip, 1923-2007

Description

lxix, 486 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Dickens had a long career as a public reader of his works: he was performing intermittently for over sixteen years, and (as his friend John Forster wrote) 'the world knew him in later life' by these Readings 'as much as by his books.' But, in the recent spate of books about him, little serious attention has been paid to this phase of his work. Now, at last, the texts of all 21 of his Readings are made available, half of them for the first time. They are printed from Dickens's own copies, almost all of which contain his textual emendations, underlinings, performance-signs, and marginal stage-directions. The edition sets out to establish an authentic text of these items, as finally revised by Dickens, and also to indicate how he devised and performed them. Evidence for this is drawn both from his own annotated copies, and from many contemporary accounts in newspapers, memoirs, letters, and studies, some of them hitherto unpublished." -- Book jacket.

Subjects

• 1800-1899
• Literary collections
• Recitations
• England > Social life and customs > 19th century > Literary collections
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

Genre/Form

Literary collections

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [xv]

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A Christmas carol -- The cricket on the hearth -- The chimes -- The haunted man -- The story of little Dombey -- The poor traveller -- Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn -- Mrs. Gamp -- Bardell and Pickwick -- David Copperfield -- Nicholas Nickleby at the Yorkshire School -- The Bastille prisoner -- Mr. Chops, the dwarf -- Great expectations -- Mr. Bob Sawyer's party -- Doctor Marigold -- Mrs. Lirriper's lodgings -- Barbox brothers -- The boy at Mugby -- The signalman -- Sikes and Nancy.

ISBN

0198125011

LCCN

^^^76354076^

OCLC

• 2932299
• SCSB-10757554

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library