How old is Miss Havisham?
The characters of Miss Havisham in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations and Norma Desmond in Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard address a matrix of age, gender, and performance through significant points of intertextuality. They epitomize what Anne Morey has referred to as “the elegiac female gr...
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| Language: | English |
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Royal Danish Library
2018-01-01
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| Series: | Age, Culture, Humanities |
| Online Access: | https://tidsskrift.dk/ageculturehumanities/article/view/130155 |