Screen LibraryOliver Twist : authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, early reviews, criticism /
Presents the complete text of Charles Dickens' classic novel along with background and source information and twenty essays that critically examine his work.
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W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [1993] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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A Norton critical edition
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| Summary: |
Presents the complete text of Charles Dickens' classic novel along with background and source information and twenty essays that critically examine his work. |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 611 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page 611). |
| ISBN: |
9780393962925 (paperback) : 039396292X (paperback) |
| Index Number: | PR4567 |
| CLC: |
I561.074 I561.44 |
| Call Number: | I561.44/D548-88 |
| Contents: |
Preface -- The text of Oliver Twist -- Backgrounds and sources -- Early reviews -- Criticism -- Charles Dickens : a chronology. Backgrounds and sources. A map of the London of Oliver Twist (1828) ; [The poor law debate] ; [The poor law riots] ; Letters about Oliver Twist (1827-64) / Charles Dickens. To Richard Bentley, January 24 1837 ; To Richard Bentley, May 8, 1837 ; To Thomas Beard, May 17, 1837 ; To Thomas Haines, June 3, 1837 -- To George Cruikshank, October 13, 1837 ; To John Forster, Mid-December 1837 ; To Richard Bently, October 3, 1838 ; To John Forster, October 6 or 13, 1838 ; To Eliza Davis, July 10, 1863 ; To Eliza Davis, November 16, 1864 ; Table of installments and chapter-division in different editions of Oliver Twist ; [An appeal to fallen women] / Charles Dickens -- Sikes and Nancy / Charles Dickens. Early reviews. From The Examiner, September 10, 1837 / [John Foster] ; From The Spectator, November 24, 1838 ; From The Literary Gazette, November 24, 1838 ; From Monthly review, January 1839 / Anonymous ; From Quarterly Review, 1839 / [Richard Ford] ; [On Oliver Twist] (1839-40) / William Makepeace Thackeray ; Charles Dickens and his works (April 1840) ; Literary recipes (August 1841) / Anonymous. [On Oliver Twist and Cruikshank] / Oliver Twist / The young Dickens / Dickens and the Jews / [Dickens and murder] / Oliver Twist : "things as they really are" / The Newgate novel and the moral argument, 1837-40 / Who is Fagin? / The social and political issues / Oliver Twist : laughter and the rhetoric of attack / On reading Oliver Twist / [Oliver Twist and charity] / The text and plan of Oliver Twist / [Oliver Twist and Christian scripture] / [The creation of Oliver Twist] / "The old story" and inside stories : modish fiction and fictional modes in Oliver Twist / [Oliver twist and the police] / The purliined handkerchief / The loves of Oliver Twist / |