Jack Maggs

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Jack Maggs is a historical novel by Peter Carey that reimagines and subverts the story of Dickens’s "Great Expectations" from the perspective of the convict benefactor.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf novel
author Peter Carey NERFINISHED
awardReceived Miles Franklin Award NERFINISHED
awardReceivedYear 1998
centralTheme class
colonialism
crime and punishment
exile
identity
power of storytelling
countryOfOrigin Australia
focusesOn convict benefactor of Great Expectations
genre historical fiction
literary fiction
postmodern fiction
hasCharacter Edward Constable NERFINISHED
Jack Maggs (character) NERFINISHED
Mercy Larkin NERFINISHED
Tobias Oates NERFINISHED
hasISBN 9780702228780
inspiredBy Great Expectations NERFINISHED
inspiredByAuthor Charles Dickens NERFINISHED
literaryMovement contemporary Australian literature
literaryTechnique intertextuality
multiple perspectives
revisionist retelling
mediaType print
narrativePerspective convict benefactor
originalLanguage English
protagonist Jack Maggs (character) NERFINISHED
publicationYear 1997
publisher University of Queensland Press NERFINISHED
reimaginesWork Great Expectations NERFINISHED
settingPeriod 19th century
settingPlace London NERFINISHED
subvertsWork Great Expectations NERFINISHED

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