| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 312 pages). |
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| Series |
Critical insights |
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Critical insights.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
On Great expectations / Eugene Goodheart -- Biography of Charles Dickens / Charles E. May -- The Paris review perspective / Elizabeth Gumport -- Great expectations in context / Gurdip Panesar -- The critical reception of Great expectations / Shanyn Fiske -- From sham to "gentle Christian man" in Great expectations / Mary Ann Tobin -- Stories present and absent in Great expectations / Eiichi Hara -- Repetition, repression, and return : Great expectations and the study of plot / Peter Brooks -- Realism as self-forgetfulness : gender, ethics, and Great expectations / Caroline Levine -- From magwitch to Miss Havisham : narrative interaction and mythic structure in Charles Dickens's Great expectations / Calum Kerr -- A second level of symbolism in Great expectations / Elizabeth MacAndrew -- Christian allusion, comedic structure, and the metaphor of baptism in Great expectations / John Cunningham -- Memory and confession in Great expectations / Samuel Sipe -- Manual conduct in Great expectations / William A. Cohen -- Gender and class in Dickens : making connections / Peter Scheckner. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
This book provides readers with a collection of essays and in-depth discussions of Charles Dickens's novel, "Great Expectations". An analysis of the moral character of the protagonist, Pip, an examination of the Christian imagery and rituals present in the novel, and the treatment of gender and class are among the topics discussed. |
| Subject |
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Great expectations.
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Great expectations (Dickens, Charles) (OCoLC)fst01356282
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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| Added Author |
Goodheart, Eugene.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Great expectations, by Charles Dickens. Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, 2010 9781587656149 (DLC) 2009026312 (OCoLC)421949172 |
| ISBN |
9781587656156 (electronic bk.) |
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1587656159 (electronic bk.) |
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