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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 ...
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" 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.
A native of Germany, Edgar Rosenberg received his Ph.D. at Stanford University and since 1965 as been Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. He is the author of From Shylock to Svengali and some fifty pieces of short fictio
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
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
