Great expectations
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Great expectations
（Broadview literary texts）
Broadview Press, 1998
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Originally published in serial form from December 1860 to August 1861, Great Expectations is the 'autobiography' of Pip, as he transformed from apprentice village blacksmith to a London gentleman. Unlike many of Dickens's earlier works, the novel is not so much a protest against social evils as a sustained meditation upon the process of social reform in Victorian England. It is this which gives such importance to the book's handling of the theme of the gentleman, a theme central both to Dickens's society and to his own life story.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Acknowledgements
A Note on the Text
Charles Dickens: A Brief Chronology
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Volume I
Volume II
Volume III
Explanatory Notes
Appendices: Contemporary Documents
Appendix A. The Composition of the Novel
Dickens's Working Memoranda
Dickens's Letters
Appendix B. Contemporary Responses to the Novel
Athenaeum (13 July 1861)
Examiner (20 July 1861)
Saturday Review (20 July 1861)
Atlantic Monday (September 1861)
The Times (17 October 1861)
British Quarterly Review (January 1862)
Rambler (January 1862)
Blackwood's Magazine (May 1862)
Temple Bar (September 1862)
Appendix C. On Class and Language
Charles Dickens, "Hard Experiences in Boyhood" in John Forster, The Life of Charles Dickens (1872-74)
Charles Dickens, "Travelling Abroad" The Uncommercial Traveller (1861)
Alexis deTocqueville, The Old Regime and the French Revolution (1856)
Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, "Gentlemen" Cornhill Magazine (1862)
William Sewell, "Gentlemanly Manners" Sermons to Boys at Radley School (1854-69)
John Ruskin, "Of Vulgarity," Modern Painters (1860)
J.H. Newman, "Liberal Knowledge Viewed in Relation to Religion," The Scope and Nature of University Education (1859)
Thomas Carlyle, "Labour," Past and Present (1843)
Samuel Smiles, "Character: The True Gentleman," Self Help (1859)
Mrs. Craik, John Halifax, Gentleman (1856)
Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857)
Reports on the State of Popular Education in England (1861)
Appendix D. On Crime & Punishment
Mrs. Trimmer, The Charity School Spelling Book (1818)
Charles Dickens, "Criminal Courts," Sketches by Boz (1839)
Charles Dickens, "A Visit to Newgate," Sketches by Boz (1839)
Report from the Select Committee on Transportation (1838)
Henry Savery, Quintus Servinton (1830-31)
Marcus Clarke, His Natural Life (1870-72)
"The Autobiography of a Convict," The Voices of Our Exiles (1854)
John Binny, "Thieves and Swindlers," in London Labour and the London Poor (1861)
Thomas Carlyle, Model Prisons (1850)
Thomas Beard, "A Dialogue Concerning Convicts," All the Year Round (1861)
Charles Dickens, "The Ruffian," The Uncommercial Traveller (1868)
Maps and Illustrations Showing Settings
Map A: Estuaries of the Thames and Medway
Map B: City of London
Map C: Pip's London
Illustration A. Smithfield Market
Illustration B. Barnard's Inn
Illustration C. The River Front at Hammersmith
Illustration D. Covent Garden Market
Illustration E. The Royal Exchange
Illustration F. The Temple Stairs
Illustration G. London Bridge
Illustration H. Billingsgate Market
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