The Annotated Bibliography
Mukherjee, Ankhi. "Missed Encounters: Contemporary Returns to Charles Dickens Great
Expectations." Contemporary Literature 46.1 (2005): 108-133
Mukherjee examines Great Expectations as something that may be adapted, giving
particular attention to the 1998 Cuaron film. She concludes that the adaptation
is
done as recreation and therefore leaves little to no room for a hierarchical
relationship
between the adaptation and the original material.
Morgenstaler, Goldie. “Meditating on the low: a Darwinian reading of Great
Expectations.”
Studies in English Literature 38.4 (1998):
707-721.
Morgenstaler argues in this article that Dickens was
influenced by Darwin’s Origin of the
Species and that said influences can be found in
Great Expectations. She sites the fact
that the formation of the self for the characters in
Great Expectations as very Darwinian
as well as the idea of time being something that
moves forward instead of just being a
reanimation of the past.
Steward,
Douglas. “Anti-Oedipalizing Great Expectations: Masochism, subjectivity,
capitalism.”
Literature and Psychology 45.3 (1999): 25-50.
Doug Steward shows the property system of Great
Expectations as exploitive and the
Class system as destructive to the self. He also
delves into the realm of adaption, talking
about several rewritings.