class prejudices, the convict stain and a corpse-bride
- Written by: Sascha Morrell, Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University
Helena Bonham Carter as Miss Havisham in a 2012 adaptation of Great Expectations.Image: IMDbIn our Guide to the classics series, experts explain key works of literature.
In Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations (1861), everything is connected. As plots and subplots converge and hidden relations are revealed, the novel elaborates a view of...
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