![]() ![]() Many narrative episodes, especially in the early chapters, convey the hyper-reality and emotional charge of dream experience, and indeed, ‘dream’ is a word massively reiterated in the text. The representation of a personalized narrative voice contributes to the characteristic tone of David Copperfield its sense of dreamlike intensity unattached to Dickens’s usual mimetic representation of a busy material world. Most obviously, it seems to mark a turning away from the sprawling public world represented in his previous texts, and again in subsequent novels, towards a closer focus upon the private, individual experience of a psychological narrative. ![]() Even without Dickens’s autobiographical confession to Forster, David Copperfield would stand apart from the rest of his fiction. ![]()
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