Screen LibraryGreat expectations : authoritative text, backgrounds, contexts, criticism /
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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W.W. Norton & Company,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [1999] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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A Norton critical edition
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| Summary: |
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. |
| Carrier Form: | xxvi, 750 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 729-744). |
| ISBN: |
9780393960693 0393960692 |
| Index Number: | PR4560 |
| CLC: | I561.44 |
| Call Number: | I561.44/D548-143 |
| Contents: |
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 / The (unread) reading version of Great expectations / The genesis of a novel: Great expectations / Contexts. Dickens and the world of Pip. Dickens among the tombstones / Dickens in 1861 / Pip's upward mobility / The pursuit of gentility / Childhood lessons. Captain murderer / "Naterally wicious: many a moral thing for the young" / Dame schools and Bible studies / Reformatory: down and out in London and Botany Bay. On gibbeting / Firing a Rick and breaking the Sabbath / Of transportation / A convict's recollections of New South Wales -- Theatrical. The apprentice's vade mecum: a gloss on George Barnwell / Hamlet before Wopsle / Criticism. Contemporary reviews and early comments. Dickens's comeback / "The most successful of his works have been his most incoherent" / "I would rather read a good review of it" / Dickens as serial writer / Dickens's tiresome clowning / "Dickens knows nothing of sin when it is not crime" / "Specimens of oddity run mad" / Dickens's shrews / Essays. Autumnal England / Introduction to Great expectations / Charles Dickens / G.B.S. on Great expectations / The critical autonomy of Great expectations / Great expectations / Oral Dickens / Repetition, repression, and return: the plotting of Great expectations / The prose and poetry of Great expectations / Dickens and the uncanny: repression and displacement in Great expectations / A re-vision of Miss Havisham: her expectations and our responses / Bodies of capital: Great expectations and the climacteric economy / |