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CRITICAL EDITIONS OLIVER TWIST - A CRITICAL E...

The editor has corrected printers' errors and annotated unfamiliar terms and allusions. Three
illustrations by George Cruikshank and a map of Oliver's London accompany the text. Backgrounds
and Sources focuses on The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834  central both to Dickens and to the
characters in Oliver Twist. The act's far-reaching implications are considered in source
materials that include parlimentary debates on The Poor Laws  a harrowing account of an 1835
Bedfordshire riot  and An Appeal to Fallen Women  Dickens' 1847 open letter to London's
prostitutes urging them to turn their backs on debauchery and neglect. Ten letters on Oliver
Twist  written between 1837 and 1864  are reprinted  including those to the novel's publisher 
the novel's illustrator  and John Forster  Dickens' close friend and future biographer. In
addition  readers can trace the evolution of the novel by examining Dickens' installment and
chapter-division plans and enjoy Sikes and Nancy  the text of a public reading Dickens composed
and performed often to large audiences. Early Reviews provides eight witty  insightful  and at
times impassioned responses to the novel and to Oliver's plight by William Makepeace Thackeray
and John Forster (anonymously)  among others. Criticism includes twenty of the most significant
interpretations of Oliver Twist published in this century. Included are essays by Henry James 
George Gissing  Graham Greene  J. Hillis Miller  Harry Stone  Philip Collins  John Bayley 
Keith Hollingsworth  Steven Marcus  Monroe Engel  James R. Kincaid  Michael Slater  Dennis
Walder  Burton M. Wheeler  Janet Larson  Fred Kaplan  Robert Tracy  David Miller  John O.
Jordan  and Gary Wills. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

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