Oliver Twist: Clash of MediaClash of Talents

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Oliver Twist Clash of Media/Clash of Talents
Charles Dickens
George Cruikshank
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Dickens Bentleys Miscellany
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Oliver Twist, first installment in Bentleys
Miscellany
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Dickenss handwriting
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Charles Dickens Preface to OT

• But I had never met (except in HOGARTH) with the
  miserable reality. It appeared to me that to
  draw a knot of such associates in crime as really
  did exist to paint in them in all their
  deformity, in all their wretchedness, in all the
  squalid misery of their lives to show them as
  they really were, for ever skulking uneasily
  through the dirtiest paths of life, with the
  great black ghastly gallows closing up their
  prospect, turn them where they might it appeared
  to me that to do this, would be to attempt a
  something which was needed, at which would be a
  service to society. And I did it as I best
  could. (liv)

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• Stop thief! Stop thief there is a magic in
  the sound. The tradesman leaves his counter, and
  the carman his wagon the butcher throws down his
  tray the baker his basket the milk-man his
  pail the errand-boy his parcels the school-boy
  his marbles the paviour his pick-axe the child
  his battledore. Away they run, pell-mell,
  helter-skelter, slap-dash tearing, yelling,
  screaming, knocking down the passengers as they
  turn the corners, rousing up the dogs, and
  astonishing the fowls and streets, squares, and
  courts, re-echo with the sound. (OT, pg. 50-51).

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The Bookstall
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Hablot K. Brown illustration for Dickenss Dombey
and Son, 1846-48
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Cruikshank on his role in the making of OT

• I suggested to Mr. Dickens that he should write
  the life of a London boy, and strongly advised
  him to do this, assuring him that I would furnish
  him with the subjects and supply him with all the
  characters, which my large experience of London
  life would enable me to do.
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• My drawings suggested the characters, rather
  than his strong individuality suggested my
  drawings
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• I am the originator of Oliver Twist, and all the
  principle characters are mine

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Cruikshank Sketches for OT
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Cruikshank, The Old Clothes Man, London
Characters, 1829.
Cruikshank, The Dustman, London Characters,
1829.
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The original Fireside Plate in Oliver Twist. 
Dickens had Cruikshank draw up another final
plate for the novel.
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The Cult of Dickens
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Remembering Dickens, 1870
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Art Spiegelman, Maus IIfathers story sons
comic