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David Copperfield, the ‘favourite child’ amongst Dickens’s fictional offspring, is the novel that most strikingly dramatises the issue of how far childhood may be regarded as a virtue or a defect. It is also the first novel to trace in considerable psychological detail the development of the child into an adult.
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Michael Slater, Dickens and Women (Dent, 1983), p. 250
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Andrews, M. (1994). David Copperfield — 1: Children and the Childlike. In: Dickens and the Grown-Up Child. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230377998_9
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