Creating Characters with Charles Dickens

Introduction: Why Hunt Originals? -- Charles Dickens And The Femme Fatale: On How Dickens Extracted The Psychology Of A Self-destructive Woman From Her Life Story -- The Donkey That Changed His Mind: On How Dickens Treated Conflict And Compulsion -- Bad Old Men In Bleak House: On How Dickens Transformed Real Persons Into Villains -- Two Lovable-laughable Dwellers In Bleak House: On The Role Of Suppression And Situation In Creating Comic Characters -- Role Players In Blear House: On How Dickens Made Role Players Play Their Roles Fictionally -- Esther And The Orphan Family: On How One Original Proliferates Her Influence Throughout A Novel -- Dance Of Death In David Copperfield: On How One Character Transforms Another -- Composites In David Copperfield: On How Idea Shapes Character -- Two Mothers In Mrs. Micawber: On How Two Personalities Amalgamate To Form One Character -- The Micawbers Fifteen Years Later: On How Time And Change Make New Characters Out Of Old Originals -- Little Dickens: On How Dickens Worked Out His Own Destiny Through The Fate Of His Characters -- Copperfield Reincarnate: On How Dickens's Life Story Brought In A Novel's Configuaration Of Characters And Shaped Them -- Handsome Is ... : On How Fictional Role Alters Originals. Doris Alexander. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [205]-210) And Index.