As Mary Hammond observes in her wide-ranging publishing history of the novel, Great Expectations' life has extended far beyond the literary Anglophone world and owes a great deal to a particular moment in the mid-Victorian publishing industry. Her...
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As Mary Hammond observes in her wide-ranging publishing history of the novel, Great Expectations' life has extended far beyond the literary Anglophone world and owes a great deal to a particular moment in the mid-Victorian publishing industry. Her book features an exhaustive survey of the novel's different appearances in serial, book and dramatic form and is enhanced by appendices with archival information, contemporary reviews and a comprehensive bibliography of editions and adaptations
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The Entry of the New Novel into the Western World, 1860-1870; 2 Afterlife in the West, 1870-1900; 3 Great Expectations in the New Media Age, 1900-1945; 4 The Entrenchment of a 'Classic', 1946-2000; 5 Translating Great Expectations, 1860-2012; Coda; Appendix A: Select List of British and American Volume Editions of Great Expectations, 1861-1939; Appendix B: List of Translations, 1861-2012; Appendix C: Adaptations for Stage, Radio, Film and Television, 1861-2012; Appendix D: Contemporary British and American Reviews
