Charles Dickens: Great Expectations (Icon Reader's Guides to Essential Criticism)
by Nicolas Tredell (Editor)
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In this Icon Readers' Guide, Nicolas Tredell introduces and sets in context 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, political, psychological, social and sexual terms, relating it to its own time and to a range of 20th century critical and theoretical perspectives. Exploring secondary sources from the first reviews in the 1860s to the most up-to-date show more critiques of the 1990s, the Guide is an essential resource for the study of one of Dickens's most complex novels. show lessTags
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Nicolas Tredell is a freelance writer and formerly taught Literature, Film, Drama and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex, UK.
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