Nicolas Tredell is a freelance writer and formerly taught Literature, Film, Drama and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the series editor of Palgrave Macmillan's Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism series and the author of the Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby/Tender is the Night volume in the Analysing Texts series.

• General Editor's PrefaceAcknowledgementsNote on QuotationsIntroductionPART I: ANALYSING 'DAVID COPPERFIELD' AND 'GREAT EXPECTATIONS'1. Introduction2. Sons and Patriarchs3. Ladies and Gentlemen4. Obsessives and Eccentrics5. Moments of Truth6. Dying in Style7. Breakdown and RecoveryPART II: THE CONTEXT AND THE CRITICS8. Charles Dickens: Life and Works9. The Historical, Cultural and Literary Context10. A Sample of Critical Views11. Further ReadingIndex.

'an excellent addition to Palgrave's Analysing Texts series ... this is a very user-friendly book. Tredell is rightly enthusiastic about Dickens and brings this enthusiasm to bear on key themes and tropes in Dickens's work ... as a concise guide to these novels, and their author, this would take some beating.' - Adam Hansen, Northumbria University, in The Literary London Journal, Volume 12 Number 1-2 (Spring/Autumn 2015)

Nicolas Tredell is a freelance writer and formerly taught Literature, Film, Drama and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the series editor of Palgrave Macmillan's Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism series and the author of the Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby/Tender is the Night volume in the Analysing Texts series.

• General Editor's PrefaceAcknowledgementsNote on QuotationsIntroductionPART I: ANALYSING 'DAVID COPPERFIELD' AND 'GREAT EXPECTATIONS'1. Introduction2. Sons and Patriarchs3. Ladies and Gentlemen4. Obsessives and Eccentrics5. Moments of Truth6. Dying in Style7. Breakdown and RecoveryPART II: THE CONTEXT AND THE CRITICS8. Charles Dickens: Life and Works9. The Historical, Cultural and Literary Context10. A Sample of Critical Views11. Further ReadingIndex.

'an excellent addition to Palgrave's Analysing Texts series ... this is a very user-friendly book. Tredell is rightly enthusiastic about Dickens and brings this enthusiasm to bear on key themes and tropes in Dickens's work ... as a concise guide to these novels, and their author, this would take some beating.' - Adam Hansen, Northumbria University, in The Literary London Journal, Volume 12 Number 1-2 (Spring/Autumn 2015)

Nicolas Tredell is a freelance writer and formerly taught Literature, Film, Drama and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the series editor of Palgrave Macmillan's Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism series and the author of the Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby/Tender is the Night volume in the Analysing Texts series.

• General Editor's PrefaceAcknowledgementsNote on QuotationsIntroductionPART I: ANALYSING 'DAVID COPPERFIELD' AND 'GREAT EXPECTATIONS'1. Introduction2. Sons and Patriarchs3. Ladies and Gentlemen4. Obsessives and Eccentrics5. Moments of Truth6. Dying in Style7. Breakdown and RecoveryPART II: THE CONTEXT AND THE CRITICS8. Charles Dickens: Life and Works9. The Historical, Cultural and Literary Context10. A Sample of Critical Views11. Further ReadingIndex.

'an excellent addition to Palgrave's Analysing Texts series ... this is a very user-friendly book. Tredell is rightly enthusiastic about Dickens and brings this enthusiasm to bear on key themes and tropes in Dickens's work ... as a concise guide to these novels, and their author, this would take some beating.' - Adam Hansen, Northumbria University, in The Literary London Journal, Volume 12 Number 1-2 (Spring/Autumn 2015)