1st Edition

The Companion to 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood'

By Wendy S. Jacobson Copyright 1986
226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

This book, first published in 1986, explores the allusions in Dickens’s work, such as current events and religious and intellectual issues, social customs, topography, costume, furniture and transportation. Together with an analysis of Dickens’s imaginative responses to his culture, and their place in the genesis and composition of the text, this book is a full-scale, thoroughgoing annotation... Read more

1. Introduction  2. A Note on the Text  3. How to Use the Notes  4. The Notes  5. Appendix: The Sapsea Fragment

Biography

Wendy S. Jacobson