Charles Dickens's Great Expectations — Literary Relations: Sources, Analogues, Influences

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Jane Austen

• Austen, Dickens, and Male-Female Relations
Expectations in Pride and Prejudice and Great Expectations Parents in Austen and Dickens

R. D. Blackmore

• John and Pip meet their beloveds — Lorna Dune and Great Expectations

Charlotte Brontë

• Cyclical versus Linear Setting in Jane Eyre and Great Expectations
• Social and Gender Mobility
• Surprizes and Surprizers in Great Expectations and Jane Eyre
• Saint or Sinner On the Scaffold?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• Gender, Art, and Economy in Aurora Leigh and Great Expectations
• Problems of Autobiography and Fictional Autobiography in Aurora Leigh and Great Expectations

Robert Browning

• The Last Moments of a Convict and a Bishop

Lewis Carroll

• The Legal System in the Alice Books and Great Expectations
• Learning Language — Alice and Pip
• The Actress playing the Queen of Denmark and Carroll's Red Queen
• Alice gets it wrong, Pip gets it right (sometimes)

Georg MacDonald

• Pip and Anados find themselves misled by beauty
• Fantasy Versus Reality in the Bildungsroman — Phantastes compared to Great Expectations
• Miss Havisham: Pip's Sailing Vessel or Sinking Ship?
• Death as rebirth in Phantastes and Great Expectations

John Ruskin

• Pip Learns to Reject the Goddess of Getting On

Graham Swift

Waterland and Great Expectations: Confronting Failed Expectations Relations Between Great Expectations and Waterland

Alfred Lord Tennyson

• "The Palace of Art"
  • Two Views of Asceticism
  • Character and Environment in “The Palace of Art" and Great Expectations
• The Idylls of the King
  • "Dreams in The Idylls and Great Expectations"
  • “Evils of Materialism in Idylls and Great Expectations"
  • Loyalty in Great Expectations and “The Coming of Arthur"
  The Pathetic Fallacy and Magic — Tennyson and Dickens
• In Memoriam
  Fever Dreams and Religious Crisis — Tennyson and Dickens
  • "Faith in In Memoriam and Great Expecations"

Miscellaneous

• "The New Story": Comments on Great Expectations in Harper's Magazine, December 1860
• Jasper Ford's Explanation of Miss Havisham's Character
• Contemporary Fiction: The Overlapping Intertextualities of Great Expectations (1861)
• Death in Phantastes and Great Expectations
• Frightening Impressions in Martineau and Dickens
Radcliffe, Dickens, and Nature
• Dickens and Swinburne’s Images of the Sea

Adaptations to other media

• A Bibliography of Commentary on Dramatic Adaptations of Great Expectations
• The 1861 adaptation of Great Expectations
• The 1872 adaptation of Great Expectations
• Great Expectations in Film and Television, 1917 to 1998

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