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Dickens's Great Expectations : Misnar's Pavilion Versus Cinderella by Jerome Meckier (Hardback, 2002)

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Dickens scholar Jerome Meckier's acclaimed Hidden Rivalries in Victorian Fiction examines fierce literary competition between leading velists who tried to establish their credentials as realists by rewriting Dickens's vels. In his new book, Meckier argues that in Great Expectations, Dickens t only updated David Copperfield but also rewrote vels by Lever, Thackeray, Collins, Shelley, and Charlotte and Emily Bronte. He parodically revised his competitors' themes, characters, and incidents to discredit their vels as unrealistic fairytales imbued with Cinderella motifs. Dickens darkened his fairytale perspective by replacing Cinderella with the story of Misnar's collapsible pavilion from The Tales of the Genii (a popular, pseudo-oriental collection). The Misnar analogue supplied a corrective for the era's Cinderella complex, a warning to both Haves and Have-ts, and a basis for Dickens's tragicomic view of the world.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Kent State University Press
ISBN-10
0813122287
ISBN-13
9780813122281
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95221400

Product Key Features

Format
Hardback
Language
English
Topic
Literary Criticism
Author
Jerome Meckier
Genre
Literary Criticism

Dimensions

Height
229mm
Width
152mm

Additional Product Features

Place of Publication
Kent, OH
Date of Publication
31/03/2002
Country of Publication
United States
Author Biography
Jerome Meckier, professor of English at the University of Kentucky and past president of The Dickens Society, is the author several books, including Hidden Rivalries in Victorian Fiction and Innocent Abroad. Dickens's Great Expectations completes an informal trilogy.

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