The Text of Great Expectations

1. Adopted Readings
2. Textual Notes
3. Launching Great Expectations
4. Writing Great Expectations
5. A Note on Dickens’s Working Plans
6. The Descriptive Headlines
7. Putting an end to Great Expectations

Backgrounds

1. Dickens’s Letters on Great Expectations
2. Anny Sadrin, A Chronology of Great Expectations
3. Jean Callahan, The (Unread) Reading Version of Great Expectations
4. Harry Stone, The Genesis of a Novel: Great Expectations

Contexts

DICKENS AND THE WORLD OF PIP

1. James T. Fields, [Dickens among the Tombstones]
2. Edgar Rosenberg, Dickens in 1861
3. Humphry House, [Pip’s Upward Mobility]
4. Robin Gilmour, [The Pursuit of Gentility]

CHILDHOOD LESSONS

1. Charles Dickens, [Captain Murderer]
2. Mrs. Sherwood, [“Naterally Wicious: Many a Moral for the Young”]
3. The Newcastle Commission, [Dame Schools and Bible Studies]

REFORMATORY: DOWN AND OUT IN LONDON AND BOTANY BAY

1. William Sykes, [On Gibbeting]
2. Sir Henry Hawkins, [Firing a Rick and Breaking the Sabbath]
3. Jeremy Bentham, Of Transportation
4. A Convict’s Recollection of New South Wales

THEATRICAL

1. Samuel Richardson, [The Apprentice’s Vade Mecum: A Gloss on George Barnwell]
2. Henry Fielding, [Hamlet Before Wopsle]

Criticism

CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS AND EARLY COMMENTS

1. From The Saturday Review, [Dickens”s Comeback]
2. From The Spectator, [“The Most Successful of His Works Have Been His Most Incoherent”]
3. Henry Crabb Robinson, [“I Would Rather Read A Good Review of It”]
4. [E.S. Dallas], [Dickens as a Serial Writer]
5. From The Dublin University Magazine, [Dickens’s Tiresome Clowning]
6. [J.M. Capes and J.E.E.D. Acton], [“Dickens Knows Nothing of Sin When It Is Not Crime”]
7. [Mrs. Oliphant], [“Specimens of Oddity Run Mad”]
8. George Gissing, [Dickens’s Shrews]

ESSAYS

1. E.M. Forster, [Autumnal England]
2. Bernard Shaw, Introduction to Great Expectations
3. George Orwell, Charles Dickens
4. Humphry House, G.B.S. on Great Expectations
5. Dorothy Van Ghent, On Great Expectations
6. Julian Moynahan, The Hero’s Guilt: The Case of Great Expectations
7. K.J. Fielding, The Critical Autonomy of Great Expectations
8. Christopher Ricks, Great Expectations
9. Ian Watt, Oral Dickens
10. Peter Brooks, Repetition, Repression, and Return: The Plotting of Great Expectations
11. David Gervais, The Prose and Poetry of Great Expectations
12. Michal Peled Ginsburg, Dickens and the Uncanny: Repression and Displacement in Great Expectations
13. Linda Raphael, A Re-Vision of Miss Havisham: Her Expectations and Our Responses
14. Susan Walsh, Bodies of Capital: Great Expectations and the Climacteric Economy

Charles Dickens: A Chronology

Selected Bibliography