Quarry for Middlemarch

Here’s Harvard’s Houghton Library’s facsimile of George Eliot’s notebook Quarry for Middlemarch; this page contains Eliot’s representation of the vote for the new hospital chaplain over a map of Middlemarch and environs: But this entry, from the end of the

Maddie on Frankenstein in Great Expectations

In comparing Great Expectations to Frankenstein, Pip seems to imply that Magwitch is his Dr. Frankenstein. Of course, in some ways Magwitch fits that role completely. After all, as Magwitch happily proclaims many times, he is the one who makes

Danielle’s seminar paper on law in Great Expectations

From “The Law as ‘Portable Property’ in Great Expectations: Regardless of who—if anyone—maintains legal authority, the idea of the law haunts the city. Notably, Pip fears that he carries the “Newgate cobwebs” with him on his body (296), even after

Cathy’s close reading of Great Expectations

Passage: It revived my utmost indignation to find that she was still pursued by this fellow, and I felt inveterate against him. I told her so, and told her that I would spend any money or take any pains to