At one time or another most of the characters in David Copperfield commit their thoughts to paper. Little Em'ly, Steerforth, Agnes, and Aunt Betsey all send and receive letters. Doctor Strong compiles a dictionary. Jack Maldon reads the newspaper. Even Omer & Joram have enough schooling to bury the body and memorialize the name...continue reading...
Literary Qualities - David Copperfield
Dickens attempted to write his autobiography, but found that some episodes in his early life were too painful to relive in an autobiographical, or confessional fashion. David Copperfield, on one level at least, is a fictionalized account of some of these episodes. Dickens succeeded in recreating the mind of a child and young man in an unsurpassed psychological portrait...continued reading...
David Copperfield and the Bildungsroman: Their Contribution to Charles Dickens’s Reputation
Analyses the ways in which Charles Dickens employed the literary genre of the Bildungsroman to depict his protagonist’s life...continue reading...