David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
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“I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child”, wrote Charles Dickens. “And his name is David Copperfield.” Since the first installment appeared in 1849, readers have shared Charles Dickens’ deep affection for his most personal novel. Amid the bustle and color of early-Victorian England, the eponymous young protagonist makes his path through sorrow, suffering, and naïveté to heroic maturation. In his travails, young David is accompanied by a delicious cast of characters: his abusive stepfather, Mr. Murdstone; the charming scapegrace, Mr. Micawber; his eccentric Aunt Betsey Trotwood; his morally fragile childhood hero, Steerforth; the loathsome villain, Uriah Heep; and the angelic Agnes Wickfield. From birth to manhood, the innocence and eventual maturity of young Copperfield, reflecting influences from Dickens’ own childhood and formation, make this beloved bildungsroman one of the greatest novels ever written.
Essays
- David Copperfield (G. K. Chesterton)
- Charles Dickens, Herbert Spencer, and David Copperfield (Robert C. Evans)
- Fathering David Copperfield (Paul Prezzia)
- David’s Journey: The Heroic Romance of David Copperfield (Jason Waskovich)
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About the Editors
Eleanor Bourg Nicholson
Eleanor Bourg Nicholson is an award-winning novelist, scholar, Victorian literature instructor for Homeschool Connections, and homeschooling mother of her six children. She has served as editor for several Ignatius Critical Editions of nineteenth-century classics, including Mansfield Park and Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen and Dracula by Bram Stoker.
Joseph Pearce
Joseph Pearce is the acclaimed author of numerous literary studies, including Literary Converts (Ignatius Press, 2006), The Quest for Shakespeare (Ignatius Press, 2008), and Shakespeare on Love (Ignatius Press, 2013), as well as popular biographies on Oscar Wilde, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. He is the series editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions.
Contributors
Robert C. Evans
Robert C. Evans is I. B. Young Professor Emeritus of English at Auburn University at Montgomery (AUM). He earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1984. In 1982, he began teaching at AUM, where he has been named distinguished research professor, distinguished teaching professor, and university alumni professor. External awards include fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Philosophical Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and the Folger, Huntington, and Newberry Libraries. He is the author or editor of roughly ninety books and of more than six hundred essays, online and in print, including recent work on various American writers.
Paul Prezzia
Paul Prezzia attended St. Gregory’s Academy from 1999 to 2002. After attending the University of Pittsburgh, he pursued graduate studies in history at Notre Dame. He received his M.A. in history from the University of Notre Dame in 2012. He now serves as business manager, athletics coach, and Latin teacher at Gregory the Great Academy and lives in Pennsylvania with his wife and four children. His writing has been featured in periodicals such as Crisis, Epoch Times, Catholic Exchange, Catholic Answers, and St. Austin Review.
Jason Waskovich
Jason Waskovich is an English instructor at Kent State University. A lifelong reader of Victorian literature, fantasy, and fairy tales, he earned his M.A. in English literature from the University of Toledo. He has published essays and reviews in First Things, Chronicles, and the St. Austin Review on writers such as G. K. Chesterton, J. R. R. Tolkien, and P. G. Wodehouse. He lives in Ohio with his wife and son.