David Copperfield (Dickens, 1850)
From Commonplace Book
Charles Dickens. David Copperfield. Pub. 1849-50. Ed. Nina Burgis and Andrew Sanders. Oxford: World's Classics, 2008.
Generally Notes
- 6 already a tension (light and funny) between individual and social identity - D wondering if he will be the hero of his own story and then going back to the hours before his birth, recounting Betsey Trotwood talking about his father and then calling his mother "Baby" to, again, play with the reference to self
- 7 potential alternative identities: Betsey Trotwood Copperfield
- 14 he denies the spirit-seeing imputed to him but is haunted in a way by the "ghost" of his altnernarice idenity, by the thought of his father rising from the dead when his mother reads the story of Lazarus
Theme Tracking
Shakespeare References
- 9 doctor walks likevyhe Ghost in Hamlet
