![]() ![]() To gain a better understanding, this essay will also explore the term nationality and what it meant at the time Jack Maggs is set, in both Britain and Australia. This essay will explore them both, as well as Jack’s nationality, from the perspective of Britain and from Jack himself. Britain’s Regency era was a time of extreme contrasts and great change, while the gothic was a time of fear and uncertainty. He has spent roughly half of his life in England and half in Australia, thus giving him a nationality crisis. ![]() It charts the psychological journey of the titular character Jack Maggs, who grew up in the slums of London but was transported, in later years, to Australia for his crimes. It is a neo-gothic and neo-regency fiction, the latter of which grew in popularity in the late twentieth century. Following his example, the Australian novelist, Carey sets his novel in Britain’s Regency era, which spanned from 1795 to 1837. Dickens’ bildungsroman novel was published in 1860-1861, and was set in early to mid-nineteenth century Britain. Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs, first published in 1997, is a re-doing of Charles Dickens’ novel Great Expectations. ![]()
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