Bowen & Patten 2006
From Commonplace Book
Bowen, John and Robert L. Patten, eds. Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Print.
Introduction
- 1: ...the multiple and overlapping dialogues that he had with his readers - as novelist, editor, autobiographer, reporter, and sage.
- 3: Great Expectations' autobiographical story takes apart, deconstructs almost, the triumphant story of self-making told by his earlier autobiographical novel and "favourite child," David Copperfield.