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Great Expectations (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism) Paperback - 1995

by Dickens, Charles


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Great Expectations is a classic novel by Charles Dickens, published in 1861. It tells the story of Pip, a young orphan boy brought up by his abusive sister and her blacksmith husband in rural England. Pip dreams of becoming a gentleman and escaping poverty, but his life takes a dramatic turn when he receives a large fortune from an anonymous benefactor. As he rises in society, he becomes involved with a host of colorful characters, including the eccentric Miss Havisham and her adopted daughter Estella, and learns valuable lessons about love, loyalty, and the true meaning of happiness. The novel is considered one of Dickens' greatest works and a masterpiece of English literature.

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Adopted at more than 1,000 colleges and universities, Bedford/St. Martin's innovative Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism series has introduced more than a quarter of a million students to literary theory and earned enthusiastic praise nationwide. Along with an authoritative text of a major literary work, each volume presents critical essays, selected or prepared especially for students, that approach the work from several contemporary critical perspectives, such as gender criticism and cultural studies. Each essay is accompanied by an introduction (with bibliography) to the history, principles, and practice of its critical perspective. Every volume also surveys the biographical, historical, and critical contexts of the literary work and concludes with a glossary of critical terms. New editions reprint cultural documents that contextualize the literary works and feature essays that show how critical perspectives can be combined.

First Edition Identification

Great Expectations by Dickens was first published on 6 July 1861 in London by Chapman and Hall. It is considered not only the rarest and most valuable of Dickens's works, but arguably his greatest. Copies in the original cloth are particularly desirable.

Published in 3 volumes, the first edition of Great Expectations has the original publisher’s violet wavy-grain cloth binding with floral decoration in blind on covers and spines lettered in gilt.

Five impressions of the first edition were printed, each of the latter four with a new edition statement on the title page.

The first edition first issue of Great Expectations’ rarity has been attributed to the probable small binding-up of copies with the first title page, coupled with the fact that the first edition was almost entirely taken up by the libraries.


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  • Title Great Expectations (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)
  • Author Dickens, Charles
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 641
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bedford/St. Martin's, U.S.A
  • Date 1995-07
  • ISBN 9780312080822

About the author

Considered by many to be the greatest novelist of the English language, Charles John Hummham Dickens was born Februrary 7, 1812, in Portsmouth, England. Some of his most populars works include Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Nicholas Nickleby, A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations.
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Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism. Edited by Janice Carlisle. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.5", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. xii/641 pages."This edition of Dickens's classic collates the 1861 three-volume edition and the 1868 Charles Dickens Edition and presents the novel along with five critical essays -- newly commissioned or revised for a student audience -- that read "Great Expectations" from five critical perspectives: "Psychoanalitic Criticism" by Peter Brooks; "Deconstruction" by Edward W. Said; "Feminist Criticism" Hilary Schor; "Gender Criticism" by William A. Cohen; "Cultural Criticism" by Jay Clayton. Each critical essay is accompanied by a succinct introduction to the history, principles, and practice of the critical perspective, and a bibliography that promotes further exploration of that approach.In addition, the text and essays are complemented by an introduction providing biographical and historical contexts for Dickens… Read More
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