Always assumed to be Charles Dickens' autobiography, David Copperfield was written during the period of England's Queen Victoria reign in the mid-1800s that has since been christened the Victorian Era. ... It is as a result of this outcome that the literature of the period, including Dickens' own David Copperfield opted to dwell on the social reforms that occurred in the typical society in the Victorian age. ... The narrator in David Copperfield reveals that her mother easily got married to a second husband who became the narrator's step-dad. ... James Steerforth is one of...

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"3 This is clear to Florian Schweizer who believes that "It is beyond question, however, that David Copperfield and Great expectations are two significant contributions to the nineteenth century, trans-European discourse about the formation of character....

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