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Great expectations : authoritative text, backgrounds, contexts, criticism
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Presents a critical edition of Dickens's story of a poor orphan boy educated as a gentleman in Victorian England, with textual notes, essays on the context of the novel, and critical readings of th...
Presents a critical edition of Dickens's story of a poor orphan boy educated as a gentleman in Victorian England, with textual notes, essays on the context of the novel, and critical readings of the work, its characters, and its significance.
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- Creator
- Charles Dickens ; edited by Edgar Rosenberg
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- English
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- First edition
- New York : Norton, [1999]
- ©1999
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- xxvi, 750 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0393960692, 9780393960693
- OCLC
- ocm24953569
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 729-744).
- The text of Great expectations -- Adopted readings -- Textual notes -- Launching Great expectations -- Writing Great expectations -- A note on Dickens's working plans -- The descriptive headlines -- Putting an end to Great expectations -- Backgrounds: Dickens's letters on Great expectations -- A chronology of Great expectations / Anny Saldrin -- The unread reading version of Great expectations / Jean Callahan -- The genesis of a novel: Great expectations / Harry Stone -- Contexts: Dickens and the world of Pip: Dickens among the tombstones / James T. Fields -- Dickens in 1861 / Edgar Rosenberg -- Pip's upward mobility / Humphry House -- The pursuit of gentility / Robin Gilmour -- Childhood lessons: Captain murderer / Charles Dickens -- Naterally wicious: many a moral thing for the young / Mrs. Sherwood -- Dame schools and Bible studies / The Newcastle Commission -- Reformatory: down and out in London and Botany Bay: On gibbeting / William Sykes -- Firing a Rick and breaking the Sabbath / Sir Henry Hawkins -- Of transportation / Jeremy Bentham -- A convict's recollections of New South Wales -- Theatrical: The apprentice's vade mecum: a gloss on George Barnwell / Samuel Richardson -- Hamlet before Wopsle / Henry Fielding -- Criticism: Contemporary reviews and early comments: Dickens' comeback / Saturday Review -- The most successful of his works have been his most incoherent / The spectator -- I would rather read a good review of it / Henry Crabb Robinson -- Dickens as a serial writer / E. S. Dallas -- Dickens's tiresome clowning / The Dublin University Magazine -- Dickens knows nothing of sin when it is not crime / J.M. Capes and J. E. E. D. Acton -- Specimens of oddity run mas / Mrs. Oliphant -- Dickens's shrews / George Gissing -- Essays: Autumnal England / E. M. Forster -- Introduction to Great expectations / Bernard Shaw -- Charles Dickens / George Orwell -- G. B. S. on Great expectations / Humphry House -- On Great expectations / Dorothy Van Ghent -- The hero's guilt: the case of Great expectation
- Julian Moynahan -- The critical autonomy of Great expectations / K. J. Fielding -- Great expectations / Christopher Ricks -- Oral Dickens / Ian Watt -- Repetition, repression, and return: the plotting of Great expectations / Peter Brooks -- The prose and poetry of Great expectations / David Gervais -- Dickens and the uncanny: repression and displacement in Great expectations / Michal Peled Ginsburg -- A re-vision of Miss Havisham: her expectations and our responses / Linda Raphael -- Bodies of capital: Great expectations and the climacteric economy / Susan Walsh