Kim Dickens as Madison Clark on the AMC horror drama series "Fear the Walking Dead" (2015–2018). Dickens was born in Huntsville, Alabama, the daughter of Pam (Clark) Howell and Justin Dickens, a country-western singer. She graduated from that city's Lee High School and attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she earned a bachelor of arts in communications. Dickens soon moved to New York City, where she worked as a waitress, to continue her studies at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, and graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. In the late 1990s, she moved to Los Angeles. She
Great Expectations of contrasts, and praises the first-person narration for providing a simplicity that is appropriate for the story while avoiding melodrama. Davis sees the symbolism attached to "great expectations" as reinforcing the novel's impact. "Great Expectations" contains the elements of a variety of different literary genres, including the bildungsroman, gothic novel, crime novel, as well as comedy, melodrama and satire; and it belongs—like "Wuthering Heights" and the novels of Walter Scott—to the romance rather than realist tradition of the novel. Complex and multifaceted, "Great Expectations" is a Victorian "bildungsroman", a German literary genre from the eighteenth century, also called an initiatory