Reading and Discussion Questions for Peter Carey's Jack Maggs

Members of English 156, Brown University, 2004

• Private Thoughts in Jack Maggs?
• Power Struggles
• Turning the Buckle: The Shift in Character of a Quiet Man
• The Power of Authorship and the Role of Text
• Humanitarian Spirit Extinguished
• Without a Da: Fatherlessness in Jack Maggs
• An Exchange Between Footmen
• Women and Motherhood in Peter Carey's Jack Maggs
• A Man of Letters: Writing and Class in Jack Maggs
• The Novel Writes Back: Tobias Oates and Authorial Self-Reflexivity
• Mr. Percy Buckle's Great Expectations
• Internal and External Colonialism in Peter Carey's Jack Maggs
• London is Memoir Country: Aspiring Authors in Jack Maggs

Last modified 1 March 2004