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Product Identifiers
PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-100393960692
ISBN-139780393960693
eBay Product ID (ePID)42317
Product Key Features
Book TitleGreat Expectations
Number of Pages776 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1999
TopicLiterary, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism, Fiction
AuthorEdgar Rosenberg, Charles Dickens
Book SeriesNorton Critical Editions Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight18.6 Oz
Item Length0.9 in
Item Width0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN91-043432
Dewey Edition23
Series Volume Number0
Dewey Decimal823.8
Edition DescriptionCritical
Table Of ContentThe Text of Great ExpectationsAdopted ReadingsTextual NotesLaunching Great ExpectationsWriting Great ExpectationsA Note on Dickens's Working PlansThe Descriptive HeadlinesPutting an end to Great ExpectationsBackgrounds: Dickens's Letters on Great ExpectationsAnny Sadrin, A Chronology of Great ExpectationsJean Callahan, The (Unread) Reading Version of Great ExpectationsHarry Stone, The Genesis of a Novel: Great ExpectationsContexts: Dickens and the World of Pip: James T. Fields, [Dickens among the Tombstones]Edgar Rosenberg, Dickens in 1861Humphry House, [Pip's Upward Mobility]Robin Gilmour, [The Pursuit of Gentility]Childhood Lessons: Charles Dickens, [Captain Murderer]Mrs. Sherwood, ["Naterally Wicious: Many a Moral for the Young"]The Newcastle Commission, [Dame Schools and Bible Studies]Reformatory: Down and Out in London and Botany Bay: William Sykes, [On Gibbeting]Sir Henry Hawkins, [Firing a Rick and Breaking the Sabbath]Jeremy Bentham, Of TransportationA Convict's Recollection of New South WalesTheatrical: Samuel Richardson, [The Apprentice's Vade Mecum: A Gloss on George Barnwell]Henry Fielding, [Hamlet Before Wopsle]Criticism: Contemporary Reviews and Early Comments: From The Saturday Review, [Dickens"s Comeback]From The Spectator, ["The Most Successful of His Works Have Been His Most Incoherent"]Henry Crabb Robinson, ["I Would Rather Read A Good Review of It"][E.S. Dallas], [Dickens as a Serial Writer]From The Dublin University Magazine, [Dickens's Tiresome Clowning][J.M. Capes and J.E.E.D. Acton], ["Dickens Knows Nothing of Sin When It Is Not Crime"][Mrs. Oliphant], ["Specimens of Oddity Run Mad"]George Gissing, [Dickens's Shrews]Essay: E.M. Forster, [Autumnal England]Bernard Shaw, Introduction to Great ExpectationsGeorge Orwell, Charles DickensHumphry House, G.B.S. on Great ExpectationsDorothy Van Ghent, On Great ExpectationsJulian Moynahan, The Hero's Guilt: The Case of Great ExpectationsK.J. Fielding, The Critical Autonomy of Great ExpectationsChristopher Ricks, Great ExpectationsIan Watt, Oral DickensPeter Brooks, Repetition, Repression, and Return: The Plotting of Great ExpectationsDavid Gervais, The Prose and Poetry of Great ExpectationsMichal Peled Ginsburg, Dickens and the Uncanny: Repression and Displacement in Great ExpectationsLinda Raphael, A Re-Vision of Miss Havisham: Her Expectations and Our ResponsesSusan Walsh, Bodies of Capital: Great Expectations and the Climacteric EconomyCharles Dickens: A ChronologySelected Bibliography
Synopsis"Backgrounds" provides readers with an understanding of Great Expectations 's inception and internal chronology. A discussion of the public-reading version of the novel is also included. A wonderfully rich "Contexts" section collects thirteen pieces, centering on the novel's major themes: the link between author and hero and, relatedly, Victorian notions of gentility, snobbishness, and social mobility; the often brutal training, at home and at school, of children born around 1800; and the central issues of crime and punishment. "Criticism" gathers twenty-two assessments of Great Expectations , both contemporary and modern, which offer a range of perspectives on Dickens and his novel., This Norton Critical Edition, edited by the pioneer of Great Expectations scholarship, presents the most thorough textual edition of the novel (1861) available., The newly established text is based on all extant materials and is accompanied by several textual essays. "Backgrounds" provides readers with an understanding of Great Expectations's inception and internal chronology. A discussion of the public-reading version of the novel is also included. A wonderfully rich "Contexts" section collects thirteen pieces, centering on the novel's major themes: the link between author and hero and, relatedly, Victorian notions of gentility, snobbishness, and social mobility; the often brutal training, at home and at school, of children born around 1800; and the central issues of crime and punishment. "Criticism" gathers twenty-two assessments of Great Expectations, both contemporary and modern, which offer a range of perspectives on Dickens and his novel., The newly established text is based on all extant materials and is accompanied by several textual essays. Backgrounds provides readers with an understanding of Great Expectations 's inception and internal chronology. A discussion of the public-reading version of the novel is also included. A wonderfully rich Contexts section collects thirteen pieces, centering on the novel's major themes: the link between author and hero and, relatedly, Victorian notions of gentility, snobbishness, and social mobility; the often brutal training, at home and at school, of children born around 1800; and the central issues of crime and punishment. Criticism gathers twenty-two assessments of Great Expectations , both contemporary and modern, which offer a range of perspectives on Dickens and his novel.
LC Classification NumberPR4560.A1 1999
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A critical Dickens item for general use…thanks.
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