TY - BOOK AU - Brinton,Ian TI - Dickens's Great expectations: a reader's guide T2 - Continuum reader's guides SN - 9781441127259 AV - PR4560 .B75 2007 U1 - 823.8 22 PY - 2007/// CY - London, New York PB - Continuum KW - Dickens, Charles, KW - Great expectations (Dickens, Charles) KW - fast KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - European KW - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-122) and index; Cover; Contents; Notes on Sources; 1. Contexts; 2. Language, Form and Style; 3. Reading Great Expectations; 4. Critical Reception and Publishing History; 5. Adaptation, Interpretation and Influence; 6. Works Cited and Further Reading; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010 N2 - Reader''s Guides provide a comprehensive starting point for any advanced student, giving an overview of the context, criticism and influence of key works. Each guide also offers students fresh critical insights and provides a practical introduction to close reading and to analysing literary language and form. They provide up-to-date, authoritative but accessible guides to the most commonly studied classic texts. Great Expectations (1861) is not only one of the last great novels to be written by Dickens but is also one which centres around his primary themes: the importance of childhood in re UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=837659 ER -