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Part of the new Oxford Edition of Charles Dickens, this is the first fully critical edition of Dickens' late journalistic masterpiece,
The Uncommercial Traveller. The edition includes textual and explanatory notes, a critical essay, a glossary of terms likely to be unfamiliar to the modern reader, and detailed maps.
List of contents
- Preface
- THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELLER
- Abbreviations, Shortened Forms of Reference, and Conventions
- Essay on the Text
- Appendix 1: Uncommercial Traveller Entries in the All the Year Round Contents Lists
- Appendix 2: Illustrations
- Textual Witnesses
- Textual Notes
- End-of-line Hyphens
- Explanatory Notes
- Glossary
- Index of Bridges, Buildings, Places, and Streets in London and South-East England
- Map of London
- Map of the West End
- Map of the City of London
- Map of the East End
- Map of South East England
About the author
J. H. Alexander is a graduate of Oxford University (BLitt 1965, MA 1967, DPhil 1970) and was a member of the English Department at the University of Aberdeen from 1968 until 2001. He was founder editor of The Scott Newsletter from 1982 till his retirement, and editor of Scottish Literary Journal from 1991 to 1995. In 2013 he became an Honorary Fellow of the Association for Scottish Literature. He is a member of the Advisory Board for the Oxford Edition of Charles Dickens.
Summary
Part of the new Oxford Edition of Charles Dickens, this is the first fully critical edition of Dickens' late journalistic masterpiece, The Uncommercial Traveller. The edition includes textual and explanatory notes, a critical essay, a glossary of terms likely to be unfamiliar to the modern reader, and detailed maps.
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...these excellent scholarly editions offer all the information one could possibly want, from maps to carefully analysed proof corrections, with illustrations, thought-provoking essays and comprehensive explanatory notes. These volumes are now the definitive texts of these works...
