Charles Dickens's Great expectations / edited & with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold.

Series:

Bloom's guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Great expectations.

Dickens, Charles.

Physical Description:

120 pages ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Great expectations

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Chelsea House, [2005]

Summary:

- Comprehensive reading and study guides for some of the world's most important literary masterpieces- Concise critical excerpts provide a scholarly overview of each work- "The Story Behind the Story" details the conditions under which the work was written- Each book includes a biographical sketch of the author, a descriptive list of characters, an extensive summary and analysis, and an extensive summary and analysis, and an annotated bibliography

Contents:

The Story Behind the Story 12

Critical Views 47

George Bernard Shaw on the Unamiable Estella and Pip as Function of Class Snobbery 47

George Orwell on Magwitch and the Pantomime of the Wicked Uncle 51

Peter Brooks on the Beginning and Ending: Pip Before Plot and Beyond Plot 54

Dorothy Van Ghent on the Century of Progress, Dickens's Use of the Pathetic Fallacy, and Pip's "Identity of Things" 59

Julian Moynahan on Pip's Aggressive Ambition and the Dark Doubles Orlick and Drummle 65

Goldie Morgentaler on Darwin and Money as Determinant 72

Christopher D. Morris on Narration and Pip's Moral Bad Faith 76

Joseph A. Hynes on Star, Garden, and Firelight Imagery 80

Ann B. Dobie on Surrealism and Stream-of-Consciousness 84

Nina Auerbach on Dickens and the Evolution of the Eighteenth-Century Orphan 88

Stephen Newman on Jaggers and Wemmick: Two Windows on Little Britain 92

Jay Clayton on Great Expectations as a Foreshadowing of Postmodernism 97

Edward W. Said on Australia, British Imperialism, and Dickens's Victorian Businessmen 100

Works by Charles Dickens 104.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-109) and index.

ISBN:

0791081680

OCLC:

55948184