Dickens's working notes for Dombey and son : facsimiles and transcriptions of the original manuscript with commentary on Dickens's working methods

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The work Dickens's working notes for Dombey and son : facsimiles and transcriptions of the original manuscript with commentary on Dickens's working methods represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Dickens's working notes for Dombey and son : facsimiles and transcriptions of the original manuscript with commentary on Dickens's working methods

Title remainder

facsimiles and transcriptions of the original manuscript with commentary on Dickens's working methods

Statement of responsibility

by Tony Laing

Creator

• Laing, Tony

Author

• Laing, Tony

Subject

• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Dombey and Son (Dickens, Charles)

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"This critical edition of the working notes for Dombey and Son (1848) is ideal for readers who wish to know more about Charles Dickens's craft and creativity. Drawing on the author's manuscript in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London--and containing hyperlinked facsimiles--Dickens's Working Notes for Dombey and Son offers a new digital transcription with a fresh commentary by Tony Laing. Unique and innovative, this is the only edition to make Dickens's working methods visible. A special feature of our html edition is the high quality of images, which enable the reader to zoom in and out of the manuscript with ease and view small sections of the facsimile or transcription with a single touch. John Mullan has called Dombey and Son Dickens's 'first great novel.' Set amid the coming of the railways, it tells the story of a powerful man--typical of the commercial and banking magnates of the period--and the effect he has on his family and those around him. Laing presents the worksheets and other materials (transcribed for the first time) that together grew into the novel. Reading the book alongside this edition of the notes enlarges the understanding of Dickens's art among teachers, students, researchers and Dickens enthusiasts. As cultural tastes shift from print to digital, Dickens's Working Notes helps preserve Dickens's work for the future. The magnifying and linking functions of the edition mean that the notes are more easily and usefully--not to mention accessibly--exhibited here than elsewhere. Laing gives present-day readers the chance not only to recapture the effect of serial publication but also to gain greater insight into the making of a work which, by general agreement and Dickens's own admission, has a special place in his development as a novelist."--Publisher's website

Cataloging source

YDX

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

PR4559

LC item number

.L35 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography