ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -What did Charles Dickens write? Among Charles Dickens’s many works are the novels The Pickwick Papers (1837), Oliver Twist (1838), A Christmas Carol (1843), David Copperfield (1850), Bleak House (1853), and Great Expectations (1861).

Detailed explanation-2: -David Copperfield, in full The Personal History of David Copperfield, novel by English writer Charles Dickens, published serially in 1849–50 and in book form in 1850.

Detailed explanation-3: -Oliver Twist was very popular when it was first published, partially because of its scandalous subject matter. It depicted crime and murder without holding back-causing it, in Victorian London, to be classed as a “Newgate novel” (named after Newgate Prison in London).

Detailed explanation-4: -Dickens intended Oliver Twist, first published in monthly instalments between February 1837 and April 1839, to show the system’s treatment of an innocent child born and raised in the workhouse system, where no ‘fault’ could be ascribed to the child.

Detailed explanation-5: -Charles John Huffam Dickens was the most popular British novelist of the Victorian era, responsible for some of English literature’s most iconic characters.