The Companion to 'Bleak House'
Title | The Companion to 'Bleak House' PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Shatto |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 434 |
Release | 2021-08-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1000425002 |
This book, first published in 1988, is the most comprehensive annotation of Bleak House ever undertaken. It provides authoritative background information about the topical issues of the novel that interested Dickens as a social critic and activist. It also describes the novel’s literary antecedents and identifies the sources of its hundreds of literary and historical allusions. The annotation is based on a wide range of nineteenth-century sources – from newspapers, periodicals and parliamentary papers to travel guides and cookery books – and gives the modern reader unprecedented access to both Bleak House – Dickens’s tract for the times – and the period when it was written.
The Companion to Bleak House
Title | The Companion to Bleak House PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Shatto |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 352 |
Release | 1988-01-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781903206294 |
The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens PDF eBook |
Author | John O. Jordan |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 353 |
Release | 2001-06-18 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107494192 |
The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens contains fourteen specially-commissioned chapters by leading international scholars, who together provide diverse but complementary approaches to the full span of Dickens's work, with particular focus on his major fiction. The essays cover the whole range of Dickens's writing, from Sketches by Boz through The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Separate chapters address important thematic topics: childhood, the city, and domestic ideology. Others consider formal features of the novels, including their serial publication and Dickens's distinctive use of language. Three final chapters examine Dickens in relation to work in other media: illustration, theatre, and film. Each essay provides guidance to further reading. The volume as a whole offers a valuable introduction to Dickens for students and general readers, as well as fresh insights, informed by recent critical theory, that will be of interest to scholars and teachers of the novels.
Supposing Bleak House
Title | Supposing Bleak House PDF eBook |
Author | John O. Jordan |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | 202 |
Release | 2011-02-23 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0813930928 |
Supposing "Bleak House" is an extended meditation on what many consider to be Dickens’s and nineteenth-century England’s greatest work of narrative fiction. Focusing on the novel’s retrospective narrator, whom he identifies as Esther Woodcourt in order to distinguish her from her younger, unmarried self, John Jordan offers provocative new readings of the novel’s narrative structure, its illustrations, its multiple and indeterminate endings, the role of its famous detective, Inspector Bucket, its many ghosts, and its relation to key events in Dickens’s life during the years 1850 to 1853. Jordan draws on insights from narratology and psychoanalysis in order to explore multiple dimensions of Esther’s complex subjectivity and fractured narrative voice. His conclusion considers Bleak House as a national allegory, situating it in the context of the troubled decade of the 1840s and in relation to Dickens’s seldom-studied A Child’s History of England (written during the same years as his great novel) and to Jacques Derrida’s Specters of Marx.Supposing "Bleak House" claims Dickens as a powerful investigator of the unconscious mind and as a "popular" novelist deeply committed to social justice and a politics of inclusiveness. Victorian Literature and Culture Series
The Bleak House Companion
Title | The Bleak House Companion PDF eBook |
Author | Bookcaps |
Publisher | CreateSpace |
Total Pages | 192 |
Release | 2014-07-13 |
Genre | Study Aids |
ISBN | 9781500515843 |
Charles Dickens' "Bleak House" is a true classic that people have appreciated for over a hundred years. The fact that it is a classic doesn't mean every reader will breeze through it with no problem at all. If you need just a little more help with Dickens' classic, then let BookCaps help with this simplified study guide! This book contains a comprehension study of Dickens' classic work (including chapter summaries for every chapter, overview of themes and characters, and a short biography of Dickens' life). This edition does not include the novel. We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a student trying to cram for that big final, or someone just trying to understand a book more, BookCaps can help. We are a small, but growing company, and are adding titles every month.
Bleak House I
Title | Bleak House I PDF eBook |
Author | Dickens C. |
Publisher | Рипол Классик |
Total Pages | |
Release | |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 5521068414 |
Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery. The obscure case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs, the romance of Esther Summerson and the secrets of her origin, the sleuthing of Detective Inspector Bucket and the fate of Jo the crossing-sweeper, these are some of the lives Dickens invokes to portray London society, rich and poor, as no other novelist has done.
The Companion
Title | The Companion PDF eBook |
Author | Katie Alender |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 449 |
Release | 2021-08-24 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0399545921 |
Winner of the Edgar Award for Young Adult Fiction! The other orphans say Margot is lucky. Lucky to survive the horrible accident that killed her family. Lucky to have her own room because she wakes up screaming every night. And finally, lucky to be chosen by a prestigious family to live at their remote country estate. But it wasn't luck that made the Suttons rescue Margot from her bleak existence at the group home. Margot was handpicked to be a companion to their silent, mysterious daughter, Agatha. At first, helping with Agatha--and getting to know her handsome younger brother--seems much better than the group home. But soon, the isolated house begins playing tricks on Margot’s mind, making her question everything she believes about the Suttons . . . and herself. Margot’s bad dreams may have stopped when she came to live with Agatha – but the real nightmare has just begun.