Language in Flight: Memorial, Narrative and History in David Copperfield by Cathy Caruth

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« This narrative is my written memory » : transcrire la mémoire dans David Copperfield de Charles Dickens by Céline Prest

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‘Only Brooks of Sheffield’: Conversation, Crossover Writing, and Child and Adult Perspectives in David Copperfield and Its Juvenile Adaptations by Hannah Field

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Le langage de l’hypocrisie chez quelques personnages dickensiens : une rhétorique de l’excès by Jacqueline Fromonot

“…This paper is part of a study on the representation of mendacity in Victorian fiction, and deals more specifically with the narrative strategies which are used to denounce the insincerity of some Dickensian characters, like the Lammles (Our Mutual Friend) and the Heeps (David Copperfield). Firstly, it seems obvious that excessive language makes it possible for the reader to spot hypocrisy, since inauthentic speeches, burdened with repetitions and hyperboles, undoubtedly betray the speaker’s dishonesty. …”
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(Auto)biography and Authority: Dickens and Forster’s Reconstruction of a ‘National Treasure’ by Isabelle Hervouet-Farrar

“…This paper first shows how Forster dealt with the fragment, its blanks, omissions and almost impressionistic structure in short scenes before revealing in his biography that the draft could be found almost verbatim in David Copperfield. Further, when it comes to the fragment, Dickens’s complex managerial stratagem proves to be an integral element in the reconstruction of his childhood experience. …”
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