Reading 'Bleak House'
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| Title: | Reading 'Bleak House' |
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| Description: | This readers'guide to Bleak House begins with a general introduction to Dickens in the context of his times, stressing the public themes of the novel and the experimental aspects of its trechnique. Later chapters contain a survey of its major characters and aspects of Dickens's characterization; the pleasures of serial reading; a detailed analysis of several key passages; an exploration of Dickens's craft and the status of this novel as an experimental fiction; a discussion of Dickens and'the woman question', and a survey of critical reception of what many regard as Dickens's greatest novel. |
| Authors: | Gravil, Richard |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Categories: | LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | This readers'guide to Bleak House begins with a general introduction to Dickens in the context of his times, stressing the public themes of the novel and the experimental aspects of its trechnique. Later chapters contain a survey of its major characters and aspects of Dickens's characterization; the pleasures of serial reading; a detailed analysis of several key passages; an exploration of Dickens's craft and the status of this novel as an experimental fiction; a discussion of Dickens and'the woman question', and a survey of critical reception of what many regard as Dickens's greatest novel. |
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| ISBN: | 9781847602169 |
