David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Half day

February 7th 2012 is the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens and the British Film Institute will be marking the event with a retrospective of film and TV works based on or inspired by the writer. As part of the commemorative events this half-day course (the second in a series of three on Dickens’s novels) considers the eponymous hero of ‘David Copperfield’ alongside the ‘umble and the not so very ‘umble of the text.  It asks how women and marriage in general are portrayed in this Bildungsroman and examines the culmination of David’s journey in the closing chapters.

It is recommended that students read the novel before attending the course.

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