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Tables of Contents for Great Expectations
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
ix
2
Preface
xi
10
Acknowledgments
xxi
4
Abbreviations
xxv
The Text of Great Expectations
1
530
Adopted Readings
361
6
Textual Notes
367
22
Launching Great Expectations
389
38
Writing Great Expectations
427
42
A Note on Dickens's Working Plans
469
20
The Descriptive Headlines
489
2
Putting an End to Great Expectations
491
40
Backgrounds
531
36
Dickens's Letters on Great Expectations
531
6
Anny Sadrin
A Chronology of Great Expectations
537
6
Jean Callahan
The (Unread) Reading Version of Great Expectations
543
13
Harry Stone
The Genesis of a Novel: Great Expectations
556
11
Contexts
567
50
DICKENS AND THE WORLD OF PIP
567
16
James T. Fields
[Dickens among the Tombstones]
567
2
Edgar Rosenberg
Dickens in 1861
569
3
Humphry House
[Pip's Upward Mobility]
572
4
Robin Gilmour
[The Pursuit of Gentility]
576
7
CHILDHOOD LESSONS
583
10
Charles Dickens
[Captain Murderer]
583
2
Mrs. Sherwood
["Naterally Wicious: Many a Moral for the Young"]
585
3
The Newcastle Commission [Dame Schools and Bible Studies]
588
5
REFORMATORY: DOWN AND OUT IN LONDON AND BOTANY BAY
593
16
William Sykes
[On Gibbeting]
593
1
Sir Henry Hawkins
[Firing a Rick and Breaking the Sabbath]
594
7
Jeremy Bentham
Of Transportation
601
2
A Convict's Recollections of New South Wales
603
6
THEATRICAL
609
8
Samuel Richardson
[The Apprentice's Vade Mecum: A Gloss on George Barnwell]
609
2
Henry Fielding
[Hamlet Before Wopsle]
611
6
Criticism
617
104
CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS AND EARLY COMMENTS
617
14
From The Saturday Review [Dickens's Comeback]
617
1
From The Spectator ["The Most Successful of His Works Have Been His Most Incoherent"]
618
1
Henry Crabb Robinson ["I Would Rather Read a Good Review of It"]
619
1
E.S. Dallas
[Dickens as Serial Writer]
620
2
From The Dublin University Magazine [Dickens's Tiresome Clowning]
622
1
J.M. Capes
J.E.E.D. Acton
["Dickens Knows Nothing of Sin When It Is Not Crime"]
623
2
Mrs. Oliphant
["Specimens of Oddity Run Mad"]
625
2
George Gissing
[Dickens's Shrews]
627
4
ESSAYS
631
90
E.M. Forster
[Autumnal England]
631
1
Bernard Shaw
Introduction to Great Expectations
631
10
George Orwell
Charles Dickens
641
3
Humphry House
G.B.S. on Great Expectations
644
4
Dorothy Van Ghent
On Great Expectations
648
6
Julian Moynahan
The Hero's Guilt: The Case of Great Expectations
654
9
K.J. Fielding
The Critical Autonomy of Great Expectations
663
5
Christopher Ricks
Great Expectations
668
6
Ian Watt
Oral Dickens
674
5
Peter Brooks
Repetition, Repression, and Return: The Plotting of Great Expectations
679
11
David Gervais
The Prose and Poetry of Great Expectations
690
8
Michal Peled Ginsburg
Dickens and the Uncanny: Repression and Displacement in Great Expectations
698
7
Linda Raphael
A Re-Vision of Miss Havisham: Her Expectations and Our Responses
705
4
Susan Walsh
Bodies of Capital: Great Expectations and the Climacteric Economy
709
12
Charles Dickens: A Chronology
721
8
Selected Bibliography
729