Selected Short Fiction

by Charles Dickens

  h

  . ‘The “Uncanny”’, in Collected Papers, authorized translation under the supervision of Joan Riviere, vol. IV (1925; reprinted, London: Hogarth Press, 1953), p. 404.

  i

  The Hero in Eclipse in Victorian Fiction, trans. Angus Davidson (London: Oxford University Press, 1956), pp. 171, 172.

  j

  ‘The Fiction of Realism: Sketches by Boz, Oliver Twist, and Cruikshank’s Illustrations’, in Dickens Centennial Essays, ed. Ada Nisbet and Blake Nevius (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971), p. 116.

  k

  For a further discussion of this aspect of Dickens’s style, see Dorothy Van Ghent, ‘The Dickens World: A View from Todgers’s’, Sewanee Review, voL 58 (1950), reprinted in The Dickens Critics, ed. George H. Ford and Lauriat Lane, Jr. (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1961), pp. 213-14.

  l

  ‘Dickens and Interior Monologue’, Philological Quarterly, voL 38 (1959), pp. 62-4.

  m

  ‘David Copperfield, Collected Essays, vol. I (London: Hogarth Press, 1966), p. 194.

  n

  . Charles Dickens (London: Methuen, 1906), p. 82.

  o

  ‘Introduction’, to David Copperfield (Boston, 1958), reprinted in The Dickens Critics, ed. George H. Ford and Lauriat Lane, Jr (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1961), pp. 354-5.

  p

  The Poetry of Experience: The Dramatic Monologue in Modern Literary Tradition (1957; reprinted New York: Norton, 1963), p. 85.

  q

  ibid, p. 83.

  r

  George H. Ford, Dickens and His Readers: Aspects of Novel-Criticism since 1836 (1955; reprinted New York: Norton, 1965), p. 67 and note. I have discussed this monologue at greater length in ‘The Equivocal Explanation of he has intentionally complicated a reader’s understanding of this situation through his chosen narrative technique. Like Conrad’s Jim, Dickens’s Silverman seems designed to remain an enigmatic reflection of the ambiguity of human existence. Dickens’ George Silverman’, Dickens Studies Annual, ed. Robert B. Partlow, Jr, vol. III (Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1974), pp. 134-43, 239-40, as well as in Dickens and the Short Story (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982), pp. 121-31.

  s

  . Charles Dickens’ Uncollected Writings from ‘Household Words’ 1850-1859 (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1968), vol. II, p. 542.

  t

  The regulations of the prison relative to the confinement of prisoners during the day, their sleeping at night, their taking their meals, and other matters of gaol economy, have been all altered - greatly for the better - since this sketch was first published. Even the construction of the prison itself has been changed.

  u

  These two men were executed shortly afterwards. The other was respited during his Majesty’s pleasure.

  v

  Its name and address at length, with other full particulars, all editorially struck out.

  w

  The remainder of this complimentary sentence editorially struck out.

  x

  The remainder of this complimentary parenthesis editorially struck out.

  y

  The remainder of this complimentary parenthesis editorially struck out.