Charles Dickens's Great Expectations -- Social and Political Contexts

• "Blackwoods, the Quarterly Review, and Victorian Working Women"
• The Cornhill, Great Expectations, and The Convict System in Nineteenth-Century England
• The Punishment of Convicts in Nineteenth-Century England
• Economic Contexts
• The Evolution of Victorian Capitalism and Great Expectations
• Dickens and Social Class
• Blackwoods, the Quarterly Review, and Victorian Working Women
• Gender, Art, and Economy in Aurora Leigh and Great Expectations
• Economic Relations in Aurora Leigh and Great Expectations
• Gender and Pip's Fantasy of Social Advancement
• Women and Social Status in Great Expectations
• Moving Up the Social Ladder: The Bottom Rung vs. The Top Rung
• Dickens, The Westminster Review, and the Convict Question

Last Modified 23 October 2002