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University of South Carolina
The Balance Between Mechanical and Creative Writing In David Copperfield
Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>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.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- M.A.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Campus Access Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- English Language and Literatures
- Year
- 2012
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Matthews, Ralph Frame
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Rebecca Stern
Subjects
dc:subject × 2Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- © 2012, Ralph Frame Matthews
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/1086
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:scholarcommons.sc.edu:etd-2087