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This guide lists selected sources for literary criticism of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.

Reference Books

  • Nineteenth Cnetury Literature Criticism (Ref PN 761 .N56) Volume(s)/Page numbers:
    • 3: 156, 170-71, 173, 176, 179, 186
    • 8: 194-96
    • 18: 111, 114, 119, 121, 127-28, 132-33
    • 26: 154-230
    • 37: 153-54, 164, 172
    • 86: 186, 189, 207, 222, 256, 258
    • 105: 227-28, 244, 248, 311, 317, 334, 351
    • 113: 6, 20, 39, 51, 54, 89, 97, 102-03, 111, 115, 118-19, 127, 137
  • Novels for Students (Ref PN 3385 .N68) Volume(s): Page numbers.
    • 4: 88-113

General Collection Books (may be checked out)

  • Bloom, Harold, ed. Charles Dickens. (Modern Critical Views) (PR 4538 .C358 1987) (PR 4538 .C358 2000) (PR 4538 .C358 2006)
  • Bloom, Harold, ed. Charles Dickens's Great Expecations. (PR 4560 .G687 2005)
  • Davis, Earle. The Flint and the Flame: The Artistry of Charles Dickens.(PR 4588 .D3) (see index)
  • Flint, Kate. Dickens. (PR 4588 .F55 1986) (see index)
  • Ford, George H., and Lane Lauriat, eds. The Dickens Critics. (PR 4588 .F63)
  • Glancy, Ruth F. Student Companion to Charles Dickens. (PR 4588 .G57 1999)
  • Johnson, Wendell Stacy, ed. Charles Dickens: New Pespectives (Twentieth Century Views) (PR 4588 .C36 1982) (pp. 142-158)
  • Lucas, John. The Melancholy Man: A Study of Dickens's Novels. (PR 4588 .L8) (pp. 287-314)
  • Newlin, George. Understanding Great Expectations: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents. (PR 4560 .N38 2000)
  • Page, Norman. A Dickens Companion. (PR 4588 .P33 1984) (pp.213-24)
  • Price, Martin, ed. Dickens: A Collection of Critical Essays. (PR 4588 .P7) (pp.158-68)

DVDs

  • The Charles Dickens Collection. DVD. Boston, MA: Carlton International, 2005. (PR 4581 .A3 C537 2005, pt. 1) General Collection.

E-Books

  • Jacobsen, Arnie. Great Expectations. netLibrary.

Online Resources (Reference Articles and Databases)

Articles

Use periodical databases, such as Academic Search Premier, Masterfile Premier, JSTOR, for recent journal articles like those posted below.

  • Brittan, Alice. "A Ghost Story in Two Parts: Charles Dickens, Peter Carey, and Avenging Phantoms." Australian Literary Studies 21.4 (2004): 40-55 [Use Academic Search Premier]
  • Byrd, Max. "'Reading' in 'Great Expectations.'" PMLA 91.2 (1976): 259-65. [use JSTOR]
  • Freedgod, Elaine. "Realism, Fetishism, and Genocide: 'Negro Head' Tobacco in and Around 'Great Expectations.'" Novel: Forum on Ficton 36.1 (2002): 26-41. [use MasterFILE premier]
  • Leech, Geoffrey. "Style in Fiction Revisited: The Beginning of 'Great Expectations.'" Style 41.2 (2007): 117-32. [use MasterFILE Premier]
  • Levine, George. "Communication in 'Great Expectations.'" Nineteenth-Century Fiction 18.2 (1963): 175-81. [use JSTOR]
  • McAllister, Marie. "'Sneaking You as Writes but One': A Note on Forgery and Identity in 'Great Expectations.'" Explicator 66 (2008): 158-60. [use Academic Search Premier, MasterFILE Premier]
  • Sanders, Andrew. "Dickens and the Idea of the Comic Novel." Yearbook of English Studies 36.2 (Annual 2006): 51+. [use Academic OneFile]
Revised and updated by Ivy Jarvis, Fall, 2008.

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