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1 Chapter 5 Reading Great Expectations (p: ) Opening and ogres (p: ) Grotesque expectations (p: ) Hallucinatory reading ( ) Little Britain and the empire ( ) “On Great Expectations” by Dorothy Van Ghent (p: ) Your primary source Great Expectations.

2 Chapter 5 Reading Great Expectations (p: ) GE is a blend of subgenres: Bildungsroman (moral growth of the protagonist) Social criticism, colonial and imperial history of GB. Autobiographical fiction that takes beyond the 1 st person narrative to the realm of the gothic and the grotesque

3 Chapter 5 Openings and ogres (p:144-59) Readers of Dickens’ time are different from today’s readers. His novels are steeped into their cultural-historical context Compare and contrast the openings of Great Expectations and of The Catcher of the Rye (p:16 & 145 RN) in terms of Subgenre Characterization Narration Dual perspective

4 Chapter 5 Openings and ogres (p:144-59) Compare the gothic elements in GE (the appearance of the convict in the cemetery) and in JE (the red room and mad woman in the attic). P:148-9 GE started as an essay and then the idea of a book came to Dickens. Quote Forster p:150 The grotesque tragi-comic conception of the plot (relation of Pip with the convict ) Dickens novels appeared in serials in All The Year Round → repeated meetings of 20-month serial publishing have the effect of soap operas upon readers. Elements of suspense and closeness to adult narrator whom we trust more.

5 Chapter 5 Openings and ogres (p:144-59) Vivid representation of Dickens’ characters, through distinctive verbal or physical mannerisms, engraves them into the readers’ mind. Illustrate. 3 parts in GE: 1- Pip’s childhood in Kent and his malaise in Satis House 2- Pip’s life as a dissipated young man in London. 3- The arrival of the convict and Pip’s compassion towards him, his tolerance of Ms Havisham and his plea of forgiveness to Joe.

6 Chapter 5 Openings and ogres (p:144-59) Realist elements in the narrative: 1- Reader’s acceptance of the illusion of reality. 2- Stating of Pip’s thoughts when he encounters the convict. 3- Precise numbering of grave stones in the churchyard. 4- Precise dates Christmas Eve in the early 1800’s.

7 Chapter 5 Grotesque expectations (p:153-9) Controversies about Dickens’ artistic experience: A wave against Victorianism in general. Quote V. Woolf (p:154) ‘subtlety and complexity’ in Dickens’ writing are not easily spotted. Dickens’ periodical essays as per Collins: 1- accurate description. 2- extended humor to caricature 3- matter-of-factness and adherence to nature. G.H. Lewes praised Dickens for his descriptive observation and truthful depiction of characters, but at times he tends to delve into absurdities (p:155)

8 Chapter 5 Grotesque expectations (p:153-9) David Masson: Each writer should be assessed through the success he achieved in his own time. Dickens’ serial publications were best sellers. Dickens response to the above criticism (p:155) He prefers his hybrid approach to literature, the literary multi genre rather than the catalogue-like conformity to his era Leavis criticized Dickens use of melodrama (a dramatic or other literary work characterized by the use of stereotyped characters, exaggerated emotions and language, simplistic morality, and conflict) → Dickens art is that of a great entertainer.

9 Chapter 5 Grotesque expectations (p:153-9) Link between the 1 st and 2 nd thread of the plot. Contrast the meeting with the convict and that with Ms. Havisham and Estella. (p:158) Read GE (p:56-9) and comment Melodramatic rather than realistic depiction of Ms. Havisham and her gothic entourage. Modern reader’s expectation when reading GE. (p:159)

10 Chapter 5 Hallucinatory reading (p:159-68) Original approach to writing by Dickens that deviates from the literal conventions of his epoch. Even Ms. Havisham’s odd and gothic environment is made realistic with detailed description. Illusion of reality Why wouldn’t Dickens probe into Miss Havisham’s psyche, rather he showers us with physical details of what she is and what she might become? GE is not of the stereotypically ‘obvious’ type, with ‘tyrannical men, dried up women and pathetic children’ ambivalence from the title. Impression of variety and uncertainty is compared to Shakespeare’s Grudin 1979

11 Chapter 5 Hallucinatory reading (p:159-68) It depends on how we read GE as an educational novel, it deals with moral development, as a gothic it involves the grotesque, as a realist, it embeds lots of details, as a melodrama, it has the suspense elements of soap operas at the end of each serial.. Brief summary of GE (p:161-2) According to Lewes, ‘Dickens imaginative powers are comparable to the hallucinations of the insane, but these hallucinations have the coercive force of reality’ (p:162)

12 Part 2 On Great Expectations (p:266-73) Dickens’s era: Breaking away from traditional values, Liberalism, Industrialism, Imperialism, capitalism. People are supplanted by ‘things’ and demolition of individual identity. complex, non-realist development of character and plot in Dickens GE linking the inner and outer worlds.