Great Expectations,9781551111742

Great Expectations

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ISBN13: 9781551111742
ISBN10: 1551111748
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-05-01
Publisher(s): Broadview Pr
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Summary

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 mediation 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 7(21)
Acknowledgements 28(1)
A Note on the Text 29(4)
Charles Dickens: A Brief Chronology 33(4)
GREAT EXPECTATIONS 37(468)
Volume I
39(154)
Volume II
193(158)
Volume III
351(154)
Explanatory Notes 505(8)
Appendices: Contemporary Documents 513(140)
Appendix A. The Composition of the Novel
1. Dickens's Working Memoranda
513(3)
2. Dickens's Letters
516(8)
Appendix B. Contemporary Responses to the Novel
1. Athenaeum (13 July 1861)
524(3)
2. Examiner (20 July 1861)
527(3)
3. Saturday Review (20 July 1861)
530(2)
4. Atlantic Monthly (September 1861)
532(3)
5. The Times (17 October 1861)
535(3)
6. British Quarterly Review (January 1862)
538(2)
7. Rambler (January 1862)
540(2)
8. Blackwood's Magazine (May 1862)
542(7)
9. Temple Bar (September 1861)
549(2)
Appendix C. On Class and Language
1. ``Hard Experiences in Boyhood'' in John Forster The Life of Charles Dickens (1872--4)
551(5)
Charles Dickens
2. ``Travelling Abroad'' The Uncommercial Traveller (1861)
556(2)
Charles Dickens
3. The Old Regime and the French Revolution (1856)
558(2)
Alexis de Tocqueville
4. ``Gentlemen'' Cornhill Magazine (March 1862)
560(2)
Sir James Fitzjames Stephen
5. ``Gentlemanly Manners'' Sermons to Boys at Radley School (1854--69)
562(1)
William Sewell
6. ``Of Vulgarity'' Modern Painters (1860)
563(8)
John Ruskin
7. ``Liberal Knowledge Viewed in Relation to Religion'' The Scope and Nature of University Education (1859)
571(7)
J.H. Newman
8. ``Labour'' Past and Present (1843)
578(2)
Thomas Carlyle
9. ``Character: The True Gentleman'' Self-Help (1859)
580(2)
Samuel Smiles
10. John Halifax, Gentleman (1856)
582(6)
Mrs. Craik
11. Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857)
588(3)
Thomas Hughes
12. Reports into the State of Popular Education in England (1861)
591(4)
Appendix D. On Crime & Punishment
1. The Charity School Spelling Book (1818)
595(1)
Mrs. Trimmer
2. ``Criminal Courts'' Sketches by Boz (1839)
595(4)
Charles Dickens
3. ``A Visit to Newgate'' Sketches by Boz (1839)
599(4)
Charles Dickens
4. Report from the Select Committee on Transportation (1838)
603(11)
5. Quintus Servinton (1831)
614(4)
Henry Savery
6. His Natural Life (1870--2)
618(3)
Marcus Clarke
7. ``The Autobiography of a Convict'' The Voices of our Exiles (1854)
621(3)
8. ``Thieves and Swindlers'' in London Labour and the London Poor (1861-2)
624(7)
John Binny
9. Model Prisons (March 1850)
631(3)
Thomas Carlyle
10. ``A Dialogue Concerning Convicts'' All the Year Round (11May 1861)
634(2)
Thomas Beard
11. ``The Ruffian'' The Uncommercial Traveller (1868)
636(6)
Charles Dickens
Maps and Illustrations showing Settings
Map A: Estuaries of the Thames and Medway
642(1)
Map B: City of London
643(1)
Map C: Pip's London
644(1)
Illustration A. Smithfield Market
645(1)
Illustration B. Barnard's Inn
646(1)
Illustration C. The River Front at Hammersmith
647(1)
Illustration D. Covent Garden Market
648(1)
Illustration E. The Royal Exchange
649(1)
Illustration F. The Temple Stairs
650(1)
Illustration G. London Bridge
651(1)
Illustration H. Billingsgate Market
652(1)
Select Bibliography 653

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