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
- Anny Sadrin, A Chronology of Great Expectations
- Jean Callahan, The (Unread) Reading Version of Great Expectations
- Harry Stone, The Genesis of a Novel: Great Expectations
- Contexts
- DICKENS AND THE WORLD OF PIP
-
- James T. Fields, [Dickens among the Tombstones]
- Edgar Rosenberg, Dickens in 1861
- Humphry 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 Transportation
- A Convict’s Recollection of New South Wales
- THEATRICAL
-
- 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]
- ESSAYS
-
- E.M. Forster, [Autumnal England]
- Bernard Shaw, Introduction to Great Expectations
- George Orwell, Charles Dickens
- Humphry House, G.B.S. on Great Expectations
- Dorothy Van Ghent, On Great Expectations
- Julian Moynahan, The Hero’s Guilt: The Case of Great Expectations
- K.J. Fielding, The Critical Autonomy of Great Expectations
- Christopher Ricks, Great Expectations
- Ian Watt, Oral Dickens
- Peter Brooks, Repetition, Repression, and Return: The Plotting of Great Expectations
- David Gervais, The Prose and Poetry of Great Expectations
- Michal Peled Ginsburg, Dickens and the Uncanny: Repression and Displacement in Great Expectations
- Linda Raphael, A Re-Vision of Miss Havisham: Her Expectations and Our Responses
- Susan Walsh, Bodies of Capital: Great Expectations and the Climacteric Economy
- Charles Dickens: A Chronology
Selected Bibliography
Copyright © 2005, W. W. Norton & Company. All rights reserved.
XHTML, CSS, 508