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'Charles Dickens' Great Expectations enjoys masterpiece status in the history of English literature. This paper discusses two twentieth-century novels which use Dickens as a central pretext. Peter Cary's Jack Maggs (1997) is a postmodernist rewriting of Dickens. The novel reconstructs the text from the returning convict's point of view and adds a metafictional aspect with the introduction of Dickens' 'alter ego' character Tobias Oates.'
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Echoing Dickens : Three Rewritings of Great Expectations

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