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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 6041)We all like to see a good villain brought to justice, but when the death of Charles Dickens in 1870 left his final novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood unfinished, his fans took the idea literally by putting the villain on...
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From:Dickens Quarterly (Vol. 27, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedEarly in Great Expectations (1860--61), the elderly and eccentric Miss Havisham hires young Pip to attend her weekly at Satis House. On his first visit, Miss Havisham, dressed in her decrepit bridal dress, commands Pip...
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From:Dickens Quarterly (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSince the first decade of the eighteenth century when Antoine Galland's translation of The Arabian Nights appeared in France, soon to be translated in turn into English, the Nights has been a synonym for the fabulous....
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From:Studies in the Novel (Vol. 49, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedA 2012 online news article reporting the decertification of a college administrative union engendered the following comment: "CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!! Unions have destroyed this country and the American product." This...
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From:Queen's Quarterly (Vol. 119, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. ROBERTSON DAVIES I N grade nine at Malvern...
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From:Dickens Quarterly (Vol. 31, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedDespite the frequency with which critics have mentioned Dickens's use of fairy tales in his writing, hardly any have considered the connection between "Beauty and the Beast" and Great Expectations (1860-61). As part of...
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From:Dickens Quarterly (Vol. 25, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAs well as a good supply of Negro Head tobacco, (1) Abel Magwitch carries about with him a "greasy little clasped black testament," solely for the purpose of swearing people on in cases of emergency, and stolen, Pip...
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From:Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature (Issue 122)Charles Dickens's bicentennial prompts reconsideration of his contemporary relevance. What is the postmodern conception of Dickensian? Aside from their obvious entertainment value, what point of contact do his novels...
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From:Studies in the Novel (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedCharles Dickens's second ending for his novel 'Great Expectations,' in which Pip and Estella meet unexpectedly the day after Pip's return rather than two years after as in the first ending, is more appropriate than...
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From: Philological Quarterly[(essay date 1988) In the following essay, Stein examines Pip’s feelings of guilt and shame about Magwitch’s death in Great Expectations. He also considers Pip’s concern that he might be suspected of having poisoned...
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From:Essays and Studies (Vol. 65)IT IS WIDELY ACKNOWLEDGED that, on the basis above all of A Christmas Carol, Dickens had a hand in the invention of modern Christmas. I want here to put forward a lesser but not unconnected claim, the exploration of...
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From:The English Review (Vol. 17, Issue 3)Science and literature are often seen as opposing disciplines. Science is logical, rational and factual. It deals in measuring, observing and examining the physical world. Literature, on the other hand, is sometimes...
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From:Dickens Quarterly (Vol. 31, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn "Living with and Looking at Landscape," geographer and historian David Lowenthal states, "We need to sense landscape as abiding; our essential well-being depends on finding our surroundings more durable than...
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From:The English Review (Vol. 20, Issue 2)The story of Molly, Jaggers' housekeeper and Estella's mother, is somewhat clumsily introduced in Chapter 48 of Great Expectations. Pip asks Wemmick to tell him her story because he has noticed a physical similarity...
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From:ISAA Review: journal of the Independent Scholars Association of Australia (Vol. 5, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedLet me begin with a couple of images. These days many if not most of us drive automatic cars. But that can lead us to forget the ongoing need to change gears: it's done for us automatically. Secondly reflect on the...
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From:Dickens Quarterly (Vol. 29, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedGreat Expectations is a novel filled with mutilated women; Miss Havisham, Mrs. Joe and Estella all suffer terribly in the hands of the men. They are, as Lucy Frost argues, all tamed by violence. Energy in women appears...
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From:Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 (Vol. 38, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedDarwinism had a significant impact on Charles Dickens' writing of 'Great Expectations.' Unlike his earlier works, 'Great Expectations' is the first time Dickens discards the notion of heredity as the main determinant of...
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From:Dickens Quarterly (Vol. 32, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedOf all Dickens's novels, Hard Times and Great Expectations were the only ones to appear without accompanying illustrations. Coincidentally, both were written to revive slumping sales of Dickens's own unillustrated...
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From:Yearbook of English Studies (Vol. 36, Issue 2)The idea of comedy inherited by Dickens and his contemporaries derived from classical, medieval, and Renaissance traditions, in which comedy dealt with 'low-life' subjects and exposed the 'ludicrous' in human actions,...
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From:Dickens Quarterly (Vol. 31, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThere seems to be a pattern in Dickens's novels concerning scenes or events where beauty--the word or some figuration of it--is involved: it appears in an intriguingly regular manner within a context shared with a whole...