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1 online resource (300 pages) |
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Misnar versus Cinderella -- Lever -- Thackeray -- David Copperfield -- Collins -- Mary Shelley -- Charlotte Bronte -- Emily Bronte -- Synopsis A: The tale of Misnar's pavilion -- Synopsis B: A day's ride |
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Dickens scholar Jerome Meckier's acclaimed Hidden Rivalries in Victorian Fiction examined fierce literary competition between leading novelists who tried to establish their credentials as realists by rewriting Dickens's novels. Here, Meckier argues that in Great Expectations, Dickens not only updated David Copperfield but also rewrote novels by Lever, Thackeray, Collins, Shelley, and Charlotte and Emily Brontë. He periodically revised his competitors' themes, characters, and incidents to discredit their novels as unrealistic fairy tales imbued with Cinderella motifs. Dickens darkened his fa |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Great expectations.
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Morell, Charles, Sir, 1736-1765. Tales of the genii
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Knowledge -- Folklore
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Contemporaries
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Cinderella (Legendary character)
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Cinderella (Legendary character) fast |
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 fast |
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Great expectations (Dickens, Charles) fast |
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English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Tales -- Arab countries -- History and criticism
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Cinderella (Tale) -- History and criticism
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English literature -- Arab influences.
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Tragicomedy -- History and criticism
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Parody.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Folklore
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Cinderella (Tale)
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Contemporaries
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English fiction
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English literature -- Arab influences
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Parody
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Tales
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Tragicomedy
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Arab countries
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780813159140 |
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0813159148 |
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