[pt. 1] The text of Great expectations -- Adopted readings -- Textual notes -- Launching Great expectations -- Writing Great expectations -- A note on Dickens's working plans -- The descrptive headlines -- Putting an end to Great expectations --
[pt. 2] Backgrounds -- Dickens's letters on Great expectations -- A chronology of Great expectations / Anny Saldrin -- The unread reading version of Great expectations / Jean Callahan -- The genesis of a novel : Great expectations / Harry Stone --
[pt. 3] Contexts -- Dickens and the world of Pip -- Dickens among the tombstones / James T. Fields -- Dickens in 1861 / Edgar Rosenberg -- Pip's upward mobility / Humphry House -- The pursuit of gentility / Robin Gilmour -- Childhood lessons -- Captain murderer / Charles Dickens -- Naterally wicious : many a moral thing for the young / Mrs. Sherwood -- Dame schools and Bible studies / The Newcastle Commission -- Reformatory : down and out in London and Botany Bay -- On gibbeting / William Sykes -- Firing a Rick and breaking the Sabbath / Sir Henry Hawkins -- Of transportation / Jeremy Bentham -- A convict's recollections of New South Wales -- Theatrical -- The apprentice's vade mecum : a gloss on George Barnwell / Samuel Richardson -- Hamlet before Wopsle / Henry Fielding --
Contemporary reviews and early comments
Dickens' comeback / Saturday Review
The most successful of his works have been his most incoherent / The spectator
I would rather read a good review of it / Henry Crabb Robinson
Dickens as a serial writer / E. S. Dallas
Dickens's tiresome clowning / The Dublin University Magazine
Dickens knows nothing of sin when it is not crime / J.M. Capes and J. E. E. D. Acton
Specimens of oddity run mas / Mrs. Oliphant
Dickens's shrews / George Gissing
Autumnal England / E. M. Forster
Introduction to Great expectations / Bernard Shaw
Charles Dickens / George Orwell
G. B. S. on Great expectations / Humphry House
On Great expectations / Dorothy Van Ghent
The hero's guilt : the case of Great expectation / Julian Moynahan
The critical autonomy of Great expectations / K. J. Fielding
Great expectations / Christopher Ricks
Repetition, repression, and return : the plotting of Great expectations / Peter Brooks
The prose and poetry of Great expectations / David Gervais
Dickens and the uncanny : repression and displacement in Great expectations / Michal Peled Ginsburg
A re-vision of Miss Havisham : her expectations and our responses / Linda Raphael
Bodies of capital : Great expectations and the climacteric economy / Susan Walsh.
The text of Great expectations. Adopted readings
Launching Great expectations
Writing Great expectations
A note on Dickens's working plans
The descriptive headlines
Putting an end to Great expectations
Backgrounds. Dickens's letters on Great expectations
A chronology of Great expectations / Anny Saldrin
The (unread) reading version of Great expectations / Jean Callahan
The genesis of a novel: Great expectations / Harry Stone
Contexts. Dickens and the world of Pip. Dickens among the tombstones / James T. Fields
Dickens in 1861 / Edgar Rosenberg
Pip's upward mobility / Humphry House
The pursuit of gentility / Robin Gilmour
Childhood lessons. Captain murderer / Charles Dickens
Naterally wicious: many a moral thing for the young / Mrs. Sherwood
Dame schools and Bible studies / The Newcastle Commission
Reformatory: down and out in London and Botany Bay. On gibbeting / William Sykes
Firing a Rick and breaking the Sabbath / Sir Henry Hawkins
Of transportation / Jeremy Bentham
A convict's recollections of New South Wales
Theatrical. The apprentice's vade mecum: a gloss on George Barnwell / Samuel Richardson
Hamlet before Wopsle / Henry Fielding
Criticism. Contemporary reviews and early comments. Dickens' comeback / The Saturday Review
The most successful of his works have been his most incoherent / The spectator
I would rather read a good review of it / Henry Crabb Robinson
Dickens as serial writer / E.S. Dallas
Dickens's tiresome clowning / The Dublin University Magazine
Dickens knows nothing of sin when it is not crime / J.M. Capes and J.E.E.D. Acton
Specimens of oddity run mad / Mrs. Oliphant
Dickens's shrews / George Gissing
Essays. Autumnal England / E.M. Forster
Introduction to Great expectations / Bernard Shaw
Charles Dickens / George Orwell
G.B.S. on Great expectations / Humphry House
On Great expectations / Dorothy Van Ghent
The hero's guilt: the case of Great expectations / Julian Moynahan.
The critical autonomy of Great expectations / K.J. Fielding
Great expectations / Christopher Ricks
Repetition, repression, and return: the plotting of Great expectations / Peter Brooks
The prose and poetry of Great expectations / David Gervais
Dickens and the uncanny: repression and displacement in Great expectations / Michal Peled Ginsburg
A re-vision of Miss Havisham: her expectations and our responses / Linda Raphael
Bodies of capital: Great expectations and the climacteric economy / Susan Walsh.