Date of Award
1-1-2012
Document Type
Campus Access Thesis
Department
English Language and Literatures
Sub-Department
English
First Advisor
Rebecca Stern
Abstract
This thesis argues that Charles Dickens's novel, David Copperfield, represents writing as an art whose success depends on a dynamic relationship between the mechanical and the creative. The representations of writing in the novel comment on David's and Dickens's work as novelists. In the last section of my thesis, I argue that the novel extends this idea of balance to the ethical dimension of writing. This study is valuable and relevant insofar as it extends recent scholarly insights about the complex work of authorship to moments in the novel that have been neglected.
Rights
© 2012, Ralph Frame Matthews
Recommended Citation
Matthews, R. F.(2012). The Balance Between Mechanical and Creative Writing In David Copperfield. (Master's thesis). Retrieved from https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/1086