{"product_id":"dickenss-great-expectations-paperback","title":"Dickens's Great Expectations - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eIan Brinton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReader'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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eGreat Expectations\u003c\/em\u003e (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 relationship to adult life, concepts of guilt and imprisonment and an analysis of individualism as opposed to the increasing bureaucracy of nineteenth-century England. This guide is an ideal introduction to the text including its contexts, Dickens's style and imagery, its critical reception from the time of publication to the present, a guide to illustrated editions and film adaptations and a guide to further reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIan Brinton is Editor for The Use of English. He is author of Contemporary Poetry Since 1990 (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and A Manner of Utterance: Readings in the Poetry of J.H. Prynne (Shearsman Press, 2009). He is currently working on An Andrew Crozier Reader due to be published by Carcanet in 2012.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 132\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 8.67 x 5.57 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 28, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130117492871,"sku":"9780826488589","price":55.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/4b3eb1ed61880564e3141cd194a74680.webp?v=1732608461","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/dickenss-great-expectations-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}