Charles Dickens's Bleak House

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

'This rich and well-organized collections will be a great help to any reader confronting the complexities of Dickens's novel for the first time.' - Dickens Quarterly

• 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