Great Expectations
One may attempt to position Great Expectations within the context of the Victorian novel (1837-1901), or within the history of Dickens's artistic output (1834-1870). The thirteenth of his novels, it is one of three relatively short novels designed for weekly magazine serialisation rather than monthly "part" publication, the other two being Hard Times (1854) for Household Words and A Tale of Two Cities (1859), the first novel serialised in All the Year Round. It is also his third major work to employ the first-person narrative point of view, the other two being the quasi-autobiographical David Copperfield (1849) and (at least, in part) Bleak House (1852). The modern reader sees this novel as a retrospective, first-person confessional. Alternatively, one may attempt to classify Great Expectations in terms of the various subgenres of the Victorian novel, for, unlike his earlier attempt at pseudo-autobiography, David Copperfield, Great Expectations does not fit so neatly into the......
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