Dickens's working notes for Dombey and son : facsimiles and transcriptions of the original manuscript with commentary on Dickens's working methods /
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 W...
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Cambridge, UK :
Open Book Publishers,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction to the working notes. Dickens's "green cover" novels ; History of the working notes ; Materials of the working notes
- Transcribing the worksheets. Basic issues ; Special issues ; Comparison with other transcriptions
- Procedures in the worksheets. Formatting the worksheet ; Entries on the left-hand half ; Entries on the right-hand half ; Entries in the double number
- Introduction to the worksheets. Introduction to the facsimiles ; Numbering the entries in the transcriptions ; Deletion in transcription ; Dickens's order of work as shown in the commentaries ; Abbreviations and other conventions in the commentaries
- The worksheets. Worksheet for No.1 ; (verso) Worksheet for No.1 (recto) ; Worksheet for No.2 ; Worksheet for No.3 ; Worksheet for No.4 ; Worksheet for No.5 ; Worksheet for No.6 ; Worksheet for No.7 ; Worksheet for No.8 ; Worksheet for No.9 ; Worksheet for No.10 ; Worksheet for No.11 ; Worksheet for No.12 ; Worksheet for No.13 ; Worksheet for No.14 ; Worksheet for No.15 ; Worksheet for No.16 ; Worksheet for No.17 ; Worksheet for No.18 ; Worksheet for Nos.19 & 20
- Overview. Preliminary entries and the number of chapters ; Chapter titles: When and where they are entered and revised ; Memory, speech-making and planning ; Chapter descriptions as plans ; Chapter descriptions as summaries ; Development of number and chapter planning in each quarter
- Afterword
- Appendices. A. Chapter number, title and length by part issue and date ; B. Chapter title history with purpose and features of chapter description ; C. Transcription of the List of Chapter Headings ; D. Revisions to chapter titles in manuscript, worksheet and List ; E. False starts in the manuscript at chapter openings ; F. Use of blue inks in worksheet, manuscript, List and proofs.