Charles Dickens's Bleak House: A Sourcebook

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Janice M. Allan
Psychology Press, 2004 - 162 páginas

With its sustained social criticism and complex construction, Charles Dickens's Bleak House (1853) is considered by many critics to be Dickens's most remarkable novel. Janice Allan:

  • introduces the contextual issues that most directly influenced Dickens's writing and reprints relevant source documents
  • provides a comprehensive survey of the criticism of Bleak House from publication to the present, then introduces, reprints and annotates extracts from significant critical texts
  • discusses key passages of the text, which are reprinted and fully annotated for ease of use
  • includes cross-references throughout, making illuminating connections between the text, contexts and interpretations of the novel
  • concludes the volume with suggestions to further reading, enabling additional focused study

Both accessible and informative, Janice Allan provides an invaluable guide to one of the nineteenth century's most important and frequently studied novels.

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Contextual Overview
9
Slums Sanitation and Policing
15
A Reminder
21
Contemporary Documents
31
Critical History
45
Dickens in the Twentieth Century
51
From Harvey P Sucksmith Sir Leicester Dedlock Wat Tyler and
71
31
73
Covering a Multitude of Sins
118
The LawWriter
122
On the Watch
124
TomallAlones
125
Mr Bucket
130
The Appointed Time
132
Esthers Narrative
134
Chesney Wold
136

From Jane R Cohen Charles Dickens and His Original Illustrators 1980
77
MiddleClass Women
84
From Hilary M Schor Dickens and the Daughter of the House 1999
93
Key Passages
99
Introduction
101
Key Passages
104
In Fashion
107
A Progress
110
Telescopic Philanthropy
113
A Morning Adventure
114
The Ghosts Walk
116
Attorney and Client
139
Jos Will
141
Esthers Narrative
143
Esthers Narrative
146
Beginning the World
147
The Close of Esthers Narrative
149
Further Reading
153
Recommended Editions of Bleak House
155
Collected Essays on Bleak House
157
Index
159
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