This week, we begin our discussion of Great Expectations by discussing the gothic, coming of age, and the traumas of childhood.

Next week, chapters 11 to 22 of Great Expectations!

Footnotes:

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• Great Expectations
  
  
• Charles Dickens
  
  
• The Castle Of Otranto (Horace Wallpole)
  
  
• The Philosophy Of Composition (Edgar Allen Poe)
  
  
• Bildungsroman
  
  
• End-Weight
  
  
• Great Expectations (1998)
  
  
• Great Expectations (2012)
  

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