Oliver Twist (Norton Critical Editions)

This Norton Critical Edition of a Dickens favorite reprints the 1846 text, the last edition of the novel substantially revised by Dickens and the one that most clearly reflects his authorial intentions.

Preface

ix

The Text of Oliver Twist

The Author's Preface to the Third Edition (1841)

3

(6)

Cover Illustration by George Cruikshank (Part I, January 1846)

9

(2)

Title Page for the 1846 One-Volume Edition

11

(2)

The Contents of Oliver Twist

13

(4)

Oliver Twist (The Edition of 1846)

17

(345)

Illustration: Oliver asking for more (Cruikshank)

28

(84)

Illustration: Oliver's reception by Fagin and the boys (Cruikshank)

112

(250)

Backgrounds and Sources

A Map of the London of Oliver Twist (1828)

362

(3)

The Poor Law Debate

365

(7)

The Poor Law Riots

372

(2)

Letters About Oliver Twist (1837-64)

374

(5)

Charles Dickens

To Richard Bentley, January 24, 1837

374

(1)

To Richard Bentley, May 8, 1837

375

(1)

To Thomas Beard, May 17, 1837

375

(1)

To Thomas Haines, June 3, 1837

376

(1)

To George Cruikshank, October 13, 1837

376

(1)

To John Forster, Mid-December 1837

377

(1)

To Richard Bentley, October 3, 1838

377

(1)

To John Forster, October 6 or 13, 1838

377

(1)

To Eliza Davis, July 10, 1963

378

(1)

To Eliza David, November 16, 1864

378

(1)

Table of Installments and Chapter-Division in Different Editions of Oliver Twist

379

(2)

An Appeal to Fallen Women

381

(3)

Charles Dickens

Sikes and Nancy

384

(15)

Charles Dickens

Early Reviews

From The Examiner, September 10, 1837

399

(2)

John Forster

From the Spectator, November 24, 1838

401

(1)

Anonymous

From The Literary Gazette, November 24, 1838

402

(1)

Anonymous

From Monthly Review, January 1839

403

(2)

Anonymous

From Quarterly Review, 1839

405

(3)

Richard Ford

On Oliver Twist (1839-40)

408

(2)

William Makepeace Thackeray

Charles Dickens and His Works (April 1840)

410

(5)

Anonymous

Literary Recipes (August 1841)

415

(4)

Anonymous

Criticism

On Oliver Twist and Cruikshank

419

(2)

Henry James

Oliver Twist

421

(5)

George Gissing

The Young Dickens

426

(6)

Graham Greene

Oliver Twist

432

(16)

J. Hillis Miller

Dickens and the Jews

448

(6)

Harry Stone

Dickens and Murder

454

(7)

Philip Collins

Oliver Twist: ``Things as they really are''

461

(8)

John Bayley

The Newgate Novel and the Moral Argument, 1837-40

469

(9)

Keith Hollingsworth

Who Is Fagin?

478

(17)

Steven Marcus

The Social and Political Issues

495

(5)

Monroe Engel

Oliver Twist: Laughter and the Rhetoric of Attack

500

(8)

James R. Kincaid

On Reading Oliver Twist

508

(7)

Michael Slater

Oliver Twist and Charity

515

(10)

Dennis Walder

The Text and Plan of Oliver Twist

525

(12)

Burton M. Wheeler

Oliver Twist and Christian Scripture

537

(15)

Janet Larson

The Creation of Oliver Twist

552

(5)

Fred Kaplan

``The Old Story'' and Inside Stories: Modish Fiction and Fictional Modes in Oliver Twist

557

(17)

Robert Tracy

Oliver Twist and the Police

574

(6)

David Miller

The Purloined Handkerchief

580

(13)

John O. Jordan

The Loves of Oliver Twist

593

(16)

Garry Wills

A Chronology

609

(2)

Charles Dickens

Selected Bibliography

611

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