Charles Dickens's Great Expectations — Plot and Narrative Structure

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• Victorian Endings: New Life, Old Love in Charles Dickens Great Expectations
• The Original Ending of Great Expectations [as first published in John Forster's Life of Charles Dickens]
• The End ... Or Is It?
• Dickens the Screenwriter?
• Surprizes and Surprizers in Great Expectations and Jane Eyre
• Discussions of the two endings
• Suffering and Anti-aristocratic Feeling in the Original Ending
• Realism versus Desire
• Coming to Consciousness
• The Validity of the Original Ending
• Generic Expectations and the Original Ending
• Closure in the Original Ending
• All the Year Round Installments of Great Expectations and Chapter Numbering in the First Book Publication

Last modified 4 March 2010