Reading Dickens's Bleak House
Jan 2013 · Humanities-Ebooks
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About this eBook
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 technique. 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.
About the author
Richard Gravil was the Chairman of the Wordsworth Conference Foundation, and CEO of Humanities-Ebooks. He was the author of Wordsworth’s Bardic Vocation, 1787–1842 (2003 and 2015), and Wordsworth and Helen Maria Williams; or, the Perils of Sensibility (2010). He edited or co-edited eleven volumes of which the most recent is The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth , co-edited with Daniel Robinson (2015).
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