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Product Description This Norton Critical Edition, edited by the pioneer of Great Expectations scholarship, presents the most thorough textual edition of the novel (1861) available. The newly established text is based on all extant materials and is accompanied by several textual essays. "Backgrounds" provides readers with an understanding of Great Expectations's inception and internal chronology. A discussion of the public-reading version of the novel is also included. A wonderfully rich "Contexts" section collects thirteen pieces, centering on the novel’s major themes: the link between author and hero and, relatedly, Victorian notions of gentility, snobbishness, and social mobility; the often brutal training, at home and at school, of children born around 1800; and the central issues of crime and punishment. "Criticism" gathers twenty-two assessments of Great Expectations, both contemporary and modern, which offer a range of perspectives on Dickens and his novel. Review Both a brilliant contribution to scholarship and an excellent reading edition with helpful notes and secondary material: -- Fred Kaplan, City University of New York Graduate Center Edgar Rosenberg has brilliantly demonstrated that there is no need to be boring in order to be serious. -- Sylvere Monod, University of Paris-Sorbonne I think the Norton Great Expectations is an editorial masterpiece. No one who teaches this novel or presumes to study it ... should hereafter select any other edition. [Rosenberg's] breathtaking allusions to other monuments of Western culture stretch readers to wider horizons and more comprehensive judgments of Dickens's place in our literary heritage. -- Robert L. Patten, Rice University Rosenberg is the wittiest and sprightliest of Dickensian commentators, so his editorial matter, lightly carrying a heavy load of scholarship, is a joy to read. -- Philip Collins, University of Leicester This is a magisterial work, absolutely stuffed with superb scholarship, wonderful quips, and massive common sense. -- David Paroissien, University of Massachusetts-Amherst This monumental edition ... is destined to be seen as a landmark. .. a benchmark against which all future editions are to be measured. -- Michael Hollington, University of New South Wales [Rosenberg's editorial] work is immensely learned, and yet the learning is carried with a delightful delicacy and penetration . . .. Game, set, and match to Rosenberg. -- Robin Gilmour, University of Aberdeen About the Author Charles Dickens (1812-1870) is one of the most acclaimed and popular writers of all time. His many works include the classics The Old Curiosity Shop, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, Barnaby Rudge, A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Bleak House, Hard Times, Our Mutual Friend, The Pickwick Papers and many more. A native of Germany, Edgar Rosenberg received his Ph.D. at Stanford University and since 1965 as been Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. He is the author of From Shylock to Svengali and some fifty pieces of short fiction, translations, and articles in journals ranging from Esquire to Commentary to The Dickensian. He has taught at San Jose State College and Harvard University, has been Visiting Professor at Stanford University and the University of Haifa, and has received Guggenheim, Fulbright, Bread Loaf, and Stanford Fiction Fellowships as well as the Clark Distinguished Teaching Award at Cornell.
