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" Charles Dickens's Great expectations / "
edited & with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
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BL
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960207
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b714577
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| Title & Author
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Charles Dickens's Great expectations /\ edited with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
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| Publication Statement
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Philadelphia :: Chelsea House Publishers,, ©2005.
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Bloom's guides
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120 pages ;; 23 cm.
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0791081680
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: 9780791081686
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-109) and index.
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| Contents
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The story behind the story -- List of characters -- Summary and analysis -- Critical views -- George Bernard Shaw on the unamiable Estella and Pip as function of class snobbery -- George Orwell on Magwitch and the Pantomime of the wicked uncle -- Peter Brooks on the beginning and ending: Pip before plot and beyond plot -- Dorothy Van Ghent on the century of progress, Dickens's use of the pathetic fallacy, and Pip's "Identity of Things" -- Julian Moynahan on Pip's aggressive ambition and the Dark doubles Orlick and Drummle -- Goldie Morgentaler on Darwin and money as determinant -- Christopher D. Morris on narration and Pip's moral bad faith -- Joseph A. Hynes on star, garden, and firelight imagery -- Ann B. Dobie on surrealism and stream-of-consciousness -- Nina Auerbach on Dickens and the evolution of the eighteenth-century orphan -- Stephen Newman on Jaggers and Wemmick: Two windows on little Britain -- Jay Clayton on Great Expectations as a foreshadowing of postmodernism -- Edward W. Said on Australia, British Imperialism, and Dickens's Victorian businessmen -- Works by Charles Dickens.
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| Abstract
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Presents an overview of the novel, featuring a biographical sketch of the English author, a list of characters, a summary of the plot, and critical and analytical views of the work.
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Dickens, Charles,1812-1870., Great expectations.
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Dickens, Charles.
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870-- Great expectations.
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Great expectations (Dickens, Charles)
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Great expectations.
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| Dewey Classification
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823/.8
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PR4560.G687 2005
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| Added Entry
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Bloom, Harold.
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Great expectations
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