David Copperfield Unbound: A Genetic Study [Paperback]

David Copperfield Unbound?is a highly?original exploration of the sources and motivations underpinning this canonical work, treated here as a melting pot of ideas and a proto-modernist masterpiece.?

      Introduction

      To the reader whom I love: a preface on prefaces

1.   Elephants, lions and Yarmouth bloaters

2.   I have forgotten this gentlemans name

3.   Dont be galvanic, sir!

4.   Not properly born

5.   King Charles and other Charleys

6.   Mr. Dick and I

7.   Looking out for Greek roots

8.   My mind is so divided

9.   An innocent, romantic boy

10. An Egyptian temple in itself

11. The most secret current of my mind

12. Britannia, that unfortunate female

      Conclusion: David Copperfield rebound     

David Copperfield was Dickens's most personal novel, a first-person narrative that reworked details of both the author's lived experience and his complex psychological profile. The present study is a highly original exploration of the sources and motivations underpinning this canonical work, treated here as a melting pot of ideas and a proto-modernist masterpiece. Jeremy Parrott casts himself as a literary detective, tracking down clues hidden in the text, following in Dickens's footsteps, and laying bare a previously unsuspected symbolic scaffoldingl>