ENGL 3312: The Victorian Novel Dr. S. Maier Critical Readings: Dickens’s Great Expectations

Here are this week’s critical readings for Great Expectations that you may access via the MLA Bibliography through the UNB Libraries web portal. This list is by no means exhaustive; you should feel free to browse the possibilities and investigate other articles, books etc. on the novel. In addition, you may use these or other critical analyses of interest for your annotated bibliography assignment. As always, I am happy to hear from you! Prof M Brooks, Peter. “Repetition, Repression, and Return: Great Expectations and the Study of Plot.” New Literary History. 11.3(Spring 1980): 503-526. Byrd, Max. “’Reading’ in Great Expectations.” PMLA. 91.2(Mar 1976): 259-265. Ioannou, Maria. “[S]imply because I found her irresistible”: Female Erotic Power and Feminism in Great Expectations.” Dickens Quarterly. 29.2(Jun 2012): 142-150. Leavis, L. R. “The Dramatic Narrator in Great Expectations.” English Studies. 3(1987): 236-248. Shrimpton, Nicholas. “Great Expectations: Dickens’s Muscular Novel.” Dickens Quarterly. 29.2(Jun 2012): 125-141.