Pre-visiting satis house: Ronald frame's Havisham

• María del Pino Montesdeoca Cubas ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad de La Laguna

     Universidad de La Laguna

     San Cristóbal de La Laguna, España

     
• Localización: Reescrituras o la vitalidad de la tradición en el estudio de la literatura / coord. por Laura Mier Pérez, Alfredo Moro Martín, 2018, ISBN 978-84-938719-0-1, págs. 101-119
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations (1861) has inspired several contemporary novels, whose diegeses usually differ from the original one. Besides, those works are not always written by British authors. One exception to these apparent rules is Ronald Frame’s Havisham (2012) in which we even read about aspects either briefly or never discussed by Dickens about his characters, particularly Miss Havisham. Following W.G. Müller’s tenets on Interfigurality (1991) and Peter Widdowson’s concept of Re-visionary Fiction (2006), we will analyze diverse intertextual connections between Great Expectations and Havisham. By examining the first three sections of this prequel, we will explore the intertextual grounds on which Roland Frame has built more than a past for one of Charles Dickens most widely discussed female protagonists.