Charles Dickens Great Expectations: Authoritative Text, Backrounds, Contexts ...

Charles Dickens Great Expectations: Authoritative Text, Backrounds, Contexts ...


Yazar Charles Dickens, Edgar Rosenberg
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ISBN 9780393960693
Baskı yılı 1999
Sayfa sayısı 774
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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 Expectationss 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 novels 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.