Synopses & Reviews
The newly established text is based on allextant materials and is accompanied by several textual essays.
"Backgrounds" provides readers with an understanding of GreatExpectations's inception and internal chronology. A discussion of thepublic-reading version of the novel is also included. A wonderfullyrich "Contexts" section collects thirteen pieces, centering on thenovel"s major themes: the link between author and hero and, relatedly,Victorian notions of gentility, snobbishness, and social mobility; theoften brutal training, at home and at school, of children born around1800; and the central issues of crime and punishment.
"Criticism" gathers twenty-two assessments of Great Expectations, bothcontemporary and modern, which offer a range of perspectives on Dickensand his novel.
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This Norton Critical Edition, edited by the pioneer of Great Expectationsscholarship, presents the most thorough textual edition of the novel (1861) available.
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The text is that of the first English edition (1910), published by Edward Arnold. It is accompanied by textual annotations and a textual appendix.
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For this new edition, the text has been reset in a larger typeface for ease of reading.
"Backgrounds" helps readers understand Eliot"s ideas on life and art with generous selections from her letters, journals, essays, and other fictional works.
"Contemporary Reviews" records the impressions of Sidney Colvin, Henry James, Joseph Jacobs, and Leslie Stephen.
"Recent Criticism" collects eleven essays-seven of them new to this edition-which center on the novel's major themes. Contributors include Mark Schorer, Jerome Beaty, Cherry Wilhelm, Robert Heilman, Lee R. Edwards, Alan Mintz, T. R. Wright, Matthew Rich, Alan Shelston, and Claudia Moscovici.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.
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"Backgrounds and Sources" presents a rich selection of Forster"s previously unpublished journals and letters and his working notes, which bring readers into the long and painstaking creative process that culminated in Howards End.
"Criticism" presents a superb selection of critical writing about the novel.
The critics include Edward Garnett, A. C. Benson, Katherine Mansfield, Frieda Lawrence, D. H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf, and six interpretations by Wilfred Stone, Barbara Rosecrance, Perry Meisel, Kenneth Graham, Elizabeth Langland, and Fredric Jameson.
A debate on the successes and shortcomings of cinematic adaptation is presented through "Reviews of the Merchant-Ivory Film."
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The text of Middlemarchis that of the 1874 edition, the last corrected by the author.
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'\'For this new edition, the text has been reset in a larger typeface for ease of reading.
\\\"Backgrounds\\\" helps readers understand Eliot\\\"s ideas on life and art with generous selections from her letters, journals, essays, and other fictional works.
\\\"Contemporary Reviews\\\" records the impressions of Sidney Colvin, Henry James, Joseph Jacobs, and Leslie Stephen.
\\\"Recent Criticism\\\" collects eleven essays-seven of them new to this edition-which center on the novel\\\'s major themes. Contributors include Mark Schorer, Jerome Beaty, Cherry Wilhelm, Robert Heilman, Lee R. Edwards, Alan Mintz, T. R. Wright, Matthew Rich, Alan Shelston, and Claudia Moscovici.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.\''
About the Author
Charles Dickens(1812-1870) is one of the most acclaimed and popular writers of all time. His many works include the classics The Old Curiosity Shop, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, Barnaby Rudge, A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Bleak House, Hard Times, Our Mutual Friend, The Pickwick Papersand many more.A native of Germany, Edgar Rosenbergreceived his Ph.D. at Stanford University and since 1965 as been Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. He is the author of FromShylock to Svengaliand some fifty pieces of short fiction, translations, and articles in journals ranging from Esquire to Commentary to The Dickensian. He has taught at San Jose State College and Harvard University, has been Visiting Professor at Stanford University and the University of Haifa, and has received Guggenheim, Fulbright, Bread Loaf, and Stanford Fiction Fellowships as well as the Clark Distinguished Teaching Award at Cornell.