Social Themes and Contexts in Great Expectations

• Moving Up the Social Ladder: The Bottom Rung vs. The Top Rung
• Angels in the House?: Victorian Women in Great Expectations
• Subversion of Gender Identity in Great Expectations
• Criminally Self-Conscious: Pip's "Great Expectations"
• City and Country in In Memoriam and Great Expectations
• "Intimidation and Embarrassment in Conversations of Dickens' novel"
• Dickens, The Westminster Review, and the Convict Question
• Courtroom Experience in Victorian England at the time of Great Expectations

Related Materials

• Victorian Social History
• Victorian Blacksmiths at Work
• social class
• The Life of the Industrial Worker in Ninteenth-Century England
• The Gentleman
• Occupations: census returns for 1851, 1861 and 1871

Last Modified Last modified 2 January 2005