Great expectations : authoritative text, backgrounds, contexts, criticism
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Great expectations : authoritative text, backgrounds, contexts, criticism
（Norton critical editions）
Norton, c1999
1st ed
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 729-746)
List of "Norton critical editions" (p. 747-)
Some copies have different pagination: 750 p
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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 Expectations's 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.
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