Great Expectations

Dickens's Bildungsroman of Pip, whose benefactor's identity teaches him what a gentleman is not.

Specifications & Metrics

author

Charles Dickens

type

Bildungsroman

era

Victorian (1860–1861)

language

English

setting

Kent marshes and London

parts

3 stages

Relative Scale in Novels

Core Principles & Analysis

• Serialized weekly in All the Year Round through 1860–61.
• Miss Havisham's stopped clocks and wedding dress are its Gothic core.
• Dickens wrote two endings, keeping the quieter revised one.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Great Expectations