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Columbia Critical Guides
Charles Dickens: Great Expectations
Surveying the key debates about a novel which has provoked an immensely rich critical response, the extracts and essays included here examine Great Expectations in structural, symbolic, social, political, psychological, and sexual terms, relating the novel to its own time and to a range of twentieth-century theoretical perspectives. Exploring secondary sources, from initial reviews in the 1860s to the most up-to-date critiques of the 1990s, the Guide is an essential resource for the study of one of Dickens's most complex works.
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192 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1998
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April 4, 2008
This covered many different angles of the book (early reviews and public reception, feminist analysis, modern reviews and criticism, the original ending, etc.) and was quite interesting.
March 2, 2010
LOVED this book...except the ending... but i have beenhaving issues with endings in general lately so maybe its just me!
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