Charles Dickens's Great Expectations; New Edition (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)

Cover......Page 1
Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations: Great Expectations......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Editor’s Note......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
Estella’s Parentage and Pip’s Persistence:
The Outcome of Great Expectations......Page 12
“Pip” and “Property”:
The (Re)Production of the Self in Great Expectations......Page 24
Christian Allusion, Comedic Structure, and the
Metaphor of Baptism in Great Expectations......Page 38
Listening to Estella......Page 54
The Good and the Unruly in
Great Expectations—and Estella......Page 70
The Burning of Miss Havisham:
Dickens, Fire and the “Fire-Baptism”......Page 88
Realism as Self-Forgetfulness:
Gender, Ethics, and Great Expectations......Page 108
The Prince of the Marshes:
Hamlet and Great Expectations......Page 124
Great Expectations: “Absolute Equality”......Page 140
Great Expectations......Page 166
Chronology......Page 178
Contributors......Page 182
Bibliography......Page 184
Acknowledgments......Page 188
Index......Page 190