David Copperfield and Great Expectations: Two Dickens Boyographies

Fall (14 hours or more) | This course is completed

10 Hilton Field Road Hanover, NH 03755 United States

Founders Room

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9/27/2017-11/15/2017

9:00 AM-11:00 AM EDT on Wed

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$80.00

8 sessions, 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
September 27 through November 15, 2017
DOC House - Hanover, NH
Course Fee: $80

David Copperfield and Great Expectations are two of Charles Dickens’s greatest novels. They are deceptively similar, each tracing the development of a boy into a man as he seeks to define himself and find a career and love. With a closer look, one finds that the concerns and approaches of the two books are fundamentally different. We will explore all these issues.

This course will consist of a close reading of both novels. (A warning: in my copies, the two total about 1,300 pages.) The course leader will try to guide and stimulate discussion, but class time will be spent in shared discussion. Your participation is essential.

  • There are required textbooks for this course.

Steve majored in English at Hamilton and earned a Ph.D. at Indiana. He had a 28-year career in the Foreign Service, during which he served in Greece for four years.