"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show." So opens Dickens's "David Copperfield" (1850), his most autobiographical narrative, which we will contextualize by reading some letters, Dickens's autobiographical fragment, and an essay or two. Learners will ask how retrospective narration shapes self-writing and how autobiography produces the self. The course will also include discussions of film clips of the two most-watched films of the novel. Purchase the "Oxford World's Classic edition" of the novel at Labyrinth Books in Princeton.

COURESE LEADER
Dianne F. Sadoff is professor emerita of English and former director of the program in Cinema Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She has published "Victorian Vogue: British Novels on Screen" (Minnesota, 2010), "Sciences of the Flesh: Representing Subject and Body in Psychoanalysis" (Stanford, 1998), and "Monsters of Affection: Dickens, Bronte, and Eliot on Fatherhood" (Johns Hopkins, 1982). She has co-edited "Victorian Afterlife: Postmodernism Rewrites the Nineteenth Century" (Minnesota, 2000).

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