Critical Texts on Dickens' Great Expectations

Someone else asked me about critical texts on Great Expectations. Where does one begin?

The Dickens Universe at UC Santa Cruz (they hold a summer conference on Dickens) has bibliographies for the novels they have studied over the years. Here's a link to the one for Great Expectations with the critical articles on the first page being the "must read" ones (at least according to the list compiler):

PDF of Dickens' Universe Bibliography for Great Expectations

Also the Victorian Web has several bibliographies of critical material on the novel.

Victorian Web Great Expectations' Bibliographies

 

Chapter Summary Chart for Great Expectations

Somebody asked me to share the very brief chapter summary chart for Great Expectations that I showed the class. Here it is:

Brief Chapter Topics for Dicken's Great Expectations

A Brief But Clear Discussion of Accentual Verse

I was thinking about preparing a handout for class on the difference between syllabic, accentual-syllabic, and accentual verse (Gee, Professor, tell me more!), but I came across this excellent and highly readable discussion of what is, in fact, one of the most important and most misunderstood topics in the study of literature: prosody and scansion.

http://danagioia.com/essays/writing-and-reading/accentual-verse/ 

Dana Gioia is the former head of the National Endowment for the Arts and the current State Poet Laureate of California.