Dickens' Working Notes for His Novels - Hardcover

Dickens, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226145905 ISBN 13: 9780226145907

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1987

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Book by Dickens Charles

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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 withDombey 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 beforeDombey and those for a few novels after that are incomplete or abbreviated, but for the most part the plan fromDombey 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. Included are his plans forThe Old Curiosity Shop, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Hard Times, Little Dorrit, Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend,and Edwin Drood. The volume also contains thirty-three full-page illustrations and a full-color frontispiece.

Harry Stone, an internationally recognized Dickens scholar, provides the reader with a full account of Dickens' methods of planning and working. In a comprehensive introduction and extensive notes, he uses Dickens' written plans to illuminate the thought and technique of the novels. He examines creative concerns, such as Dickens' process of naming and visualization, and technical matters, such as his use of various pen nibs, ink colors, and papers.

By making fully available and comprehensible Dickens' own cache of in-process plans, possibilities, and alternatives for shaping his novels,Dickens' Working Notes offers unparalleled insights into the novelist's art and into the nature of the creative imagination.

Biografía del autor:

Harry Stone, professor of English at California State University, Northridge, is the author of many books and essays on Dickens, including "Dickens and the Invisible World," and editor of the two-volume "Uncollected Writings of Charles Dickens."

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• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0226145905
• ISBN 13: 9780226145907
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432
• Herausgeber: Stone Harry