Genre

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

Great Expectations: Genre 1 key example

Genre
Explanation and Analysis:

Great Expectations is first and foremost a Bildungsroman, or coming-of age-novel. The reader follows the journey of Philip "Pip" Pirrip, the protagonist, as he grows from a child to a man and moves from experience to inexperience through various trials, successes, and rites of passage. This genre was very characteristic of the late 18th and early 19th century and aligns with the rapid modernization and globalization of the world following the Industrial Revolution.