Publisher's Synopsis
Storey explores the important and artistic use of fairy-tale and story-book enchantment in Dickens' "David Copperfield" (1849-50). Presenting biographical evidence and examining Dickens' debt to the English Romantic poets, he argues that "child's-eye" vision in David Copperfield is the novel's greatest strength, and that Dickens is perhaps the best writer on children of the Victorian age.