Charles Dickens's Bleak House - 9780415247726

Taylor & Francis

This guidebook examines Dickens' novel within its literary and cultural contexts providing an ideal orientation in the novel, its reception history and the critical material which surrounds it. > \nWith 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: \n--introduces the contextual issues that most directly influenced Dickens's writing and reprints relevant source documents \n--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 \n--discusses key passages of the text, which are reprinted and fully annotated for ease of use \n--includes cross-references throughout, making illuminating connections between the text, contexts and interpretations of the novel \n--concludes the volume with suggestions to further reading, enabling addition.