Great expectations, by Charles Dickens / editor, Eugene Goodheart. - Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, 2010. - viii, 312 p. ; 24 cm. - Critical insights . - Critical insights. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

On Great expectations / Biography of Charles Dickens / Paris review perspective / Great expectations in context / critical reception of Great expectations / From sham to "gentle Christian man" in Great expectations / Stories present and absent in Great expectations / Repetition, repression, and return : Great expectations and the study of plot / Realism as self-forgetfulness : gender, ethics, and Great expectations / From magwitch to Miss Havisham : narrative interaction and mythic structure in Charles Dickens's Great expectations / second level of symbolism in Great expectations / Christian allusion, comedic structure, and the metaphor of baptism in Great expectations / Memory and confession in Great expectations / Manual conduct in Great expectations / Gender and class in Dickens : making connections / Eugene Goodheart -- Charles E. May -- Elizabeth Gumport -- Gurdip Panesar -- Shanyn Fiske -- Mary Ann Tobin -- Eiichi Hara -- Peter Brooks -- Caroline Levine -- Calum Kerr -- Elizabeth MacAndrew -- John Cunningham -- Samuel Sipe -- William A. Cohen -- Peter Scheckner. The The A

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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Great expectations.

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