Great expectations
Subtitle: complete, authoritative text with biographical and historical contexts, critical history, and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives
By: Charles Dickens ; edited by Janice Carlisle.
Contributors: Carlisle, Janice.
Series: Case studies in contemporary criticism
Publisher: Bedford Books
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 641
ISBN-13: 9780312080822
Copyright date: 1996
Subjects: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870; Man-woman relationships -- Fiction; Ex-convicts -- Fiction; Benefactors -- Fiction; Young men -- Fiction; Revenge -- Fiction; Orphans -- Fiction; England -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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 contemporary critical perspectives:

Psychoanalytic Criticism by Peter Brooks
Deconstruction by Edward W. Said
Feminist Criticism by 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 by 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 and Great Expectations, a survey of critical responses to the novel since its initial publication, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.