Great Expectations

ISBN-13: 9780333546079 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 256 str.

Opis

Ever since Edmund Wilson's Dickens: the Two Scrooges, one of the hallmarks of Dickens criticism has been a disturbing kind of socio-psychological probing, with insights nowadays being drawn from poststructuralist and feminist thought. At the same time, however, some critics are beginning to rehabilitate 'old-fashioned' topics such as Dickens's characters, his comic plotting, and his relations with his readers - then and now. The New Casebook includes an extensive introduction which connects these trends to developments in literary theory. And of the hundreds of recent accounts of Great Expectations, twelve of the most representative are presented uncut or in substantial extracts.

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Acknowledgements.- General Editors' Preface.- Introduction; R.D.Sell.- Beating and Cringing:Great Expectations; A.L.French.- Taming to Improve: Dickens and the Women in Great Expectations;L.Frost.- Great Expiations: Dickens and the Betrayal of the Child; J.Rawlins.- Repetition, Repression, and Return:Great Expectations and the Study of Plot; P.Brooks.- Pip and the Victorian Idea of the Gentleman; R.Gilmour.- Prison-Bound: Dickens and Foucault; J.Tambling.- Stories Present and Absent in Great Expectations;E.Hara.- The Imaginary and the Symbolic in Great Expectations; S.Connor.- Reading for the Character and Reading for the Progression:John Wemmick and Great Expectations: J.Phelan.- Great Expectations as Romantic Irony; A.Sadrin.- Gothic Plot in Great Expectations; T.Loe.- A Re-vision of Miss Havisham: Her Expectations and Our Responses; L.Raphael.- Further Reading.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.