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About the Author

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The most popular Victorian author in Great Britain and the United States, Charles Dickens was both gifted humorist and critic of the social evils of […]

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Overview

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David Copperfield is a bildungsroman, the story of the narrator’s life from early childhood to maturity. In it Copperfield describes the obstacles he overcame and […]

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Setting

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David Copperfield begins in Blunderstone Rookery, a house in rural Suffolk. The rooks no longer nested on the property, but David’s father had liked the […]

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Themes and Characters

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The title character in David Copperfield presents himself, his life, and the people and experiences who have helped shape his personality by reconstructing them from […]

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Literary Qualities

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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 […]

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Social Sensitivity

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Dickens in David Copperfield is not as concerned as he usually is with “the condition of England question,” Thomas Carlyle’s term for Dickens’ concern with […]

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Topics for Discussion

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1. Is David Copperfield’s childhood at all like that of American children in the 19th century? 2. Could an Edward Murdstone exploit today a young […]

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Related Titles and Adaptations

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Ten years after completing David Copperfield Dickens wrote his second bildungsroman, Great Expectations (1860-1861). There is little optimism despite the title in this work, and […]