Dickens's Great Expectations: Misnar's Pavilion Versus Cinderella

by Jerome Meckier

" Dickens scholar Jerome Meckier's acclaimed Hidden Rivalries in Victorian Fiction examined fierce literary competition between leading novelists who tried to establish their credentials as realists by rewriting Dicken's novels. In his new book, Meckier argues that in Great Expectations, Dickens not only updated David Copperfield but also rewrote novels by Lever, Thackeray, Collins, Shelley, and Charlotte and Emily Bront?. He parodically revised his...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813122287
• ISBN13: 9780813122281
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher