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“The Hero of My Own Life”: David Copperfield and Carlyle’s “Hero as the Man of Letters”


Contributed by Marian Gentile (Temple University, Philadelphia) In the opening line of Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield (1850), David states, “Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show”...