Charles Dickens's Bleak House

A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook
Herausgeber: Allan, Janice M.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This sourcebook illuminates the crucial connections between contexts, interpretations and the text for students wishing to make their own readings of Dickens' novel.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780415247726
• ISBN-10: 0415247721
• Artikelnr.: 21578732

Autorenporträt

Janice M. Allan is Lecturer in English at the University of Salford.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
I Contexts
Contextual Overview
A Neglected Child
The Rise of the Middle Classes
Constructions of Gender and the Separate Spheres Slums
Sanitation and Policing
Chancery Court
The Literary Context
A Reminder
Chronology
Contemporary Documents
From Thomas Carlyle
Past and Present (1843)
From Hector Gavin
Sanitary Ramblings (1848)
From Alfred Whaley Cole
'The Martyrs of Chancery' (1850)
From Charles Dickens
speech delivered to the Metropolitan Sanitary Association (1851)
From Charles Dickens
'On Duty with Inspector Field' (1851)
From Charles Dickens
'Suckling Pigs' (1851)
2: Interpretations
Critical History
The Contemporary Reaction Reaction
Decline and Reassessment Dickens in the Twentieth Century Recent Developments
Early Critical Reception
From [Henry Fothergill Chorley]
unsigned review
the Athenaeum (1853) From [George Brimley]
unsigned review
the Spectator (1853)
From anonymous review
the Illustrated London News (1853)
From anonymous review
Bentley's Miscellany (1853)
From anonymous review
Bentley's Monthly Review (1853)
Modern Criticism
From John Butt and Kathleen Tillotson
Dickens at Work (1957)
From J. Hillis Miller
'Interpretation in Bleak House' (1971)
From Harvey P. Sucksmith
'Sir Leicester Dedlock
Wat Tyler
and the Chartists: The Role of the Ironmaster in Bleak House' (1975)
From F.S. Schwarzbach
Dickens and the City (1979)
From Jane R. Cohen
Charles Dickens and His Original Illustrators (1980) From D.A. Miller
The Novel and the Police (1988)
From Elizabeth Langland
Nobody's Angels: Middle-Class Women and Domestic Ideology in Victorian Culture (1995)
From Carolyn Dever
Death and the Mother from Dickens to Freud: Victorian Fiction and the Anxiety of Origins (1998)
From Hilary M. Schor
Dickens and the Daughter of the House (1999)
3: Key Passages
Chapter 1: In Chancery
Chapter 2: In Fashion
Chapter 3: A Progress
Chapter 4: Telescopic Philanthropy Chapter 5: A Morning Adventure
Chapter 7: The Ghost's Walk
Chapter 8: Covering a Multitude of Sins Chapter 10: The Law-Writer
Chapter 12: On the Watch
Chapter 16: Tom-all-Alone's
Chapter 22: Mr Bucket
Chapter 32: The Appointed Time
Chapter 35: Esther's Narrative
Chapter 36: Chesney Wold
Chapter 39: Attorney and Client Chapter47:Jo'sWill
Chapter 59: Esther's Narrative
Chapter 64: Esther's Narrative
Chapter 65: Beginning the World
Chapter 67: The Close of Esther's Narrative
4: Further Reading