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

" 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 Brontë. He parodically revised his competitors' themes, characters, and inciden

Author: Jerome Meckier
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 05/17/2002
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.52h x 6.16w x 0.96d
ISBN: 9780813122281

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2002 pg. 632

About the Author

Jerome Meckier, professor of English at the University of Kentucky and past president of The Dickens Society, is the author of several books, including Hidden Rivalries in Victorian Fiction and Innocent Abroad. Dickens's Great Expectations completes an informal trilogy.

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