Feeling for the Future: The Crisis of Anticipation in Great Expectations
This paper investigates the sense of shock, anxiety, and confusion that arises when the future-directed narrative that Pip internalizes about his own life story is thrown into disarray. It will examine Dickens’s deft handling of that crisis of narrative and of feeling. Although 'Great Expectati...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2011-09-01
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| Series: | 19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century |
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| Online Access: | http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/607 |