Charles Dickens
Great Expectations: Complete, Authoritative Text with Biographical and Historical Contexts, Critical History, and Essays from Five Contemporary Critical Perspectives.
Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1996. Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism. Edited by Janice Carlisle. 0312080824 xii/641 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.5", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright.
"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 and "Great Expectations," a survey of critical responses to the novel since its initial publication, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms."
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