Pre-visiting satis houseRonald frame's Havisham

Resumen

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.