It is in Bleak House that Dickens the realist and Dickens the modernist are often thought to meet. In the two intertwined but separate narratives, one from a woman's perspective and the other forming, arguably, the first detective novel in English, Dickens confronts modern England and modernity itself. The essays collected in this New Casebook embody some of the most exciting and challenging approaches to Dickens, using deconstructive, feminist, Marxist and poststructuralist methods. The introduction places the various essays in the context of current critical thinking, while itself suggesting an alternative viewpoint and the potential direction of future analysis of this most rewarding and stimulating text.
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'The strength of the whole volume is the editing. There are very useful and detailed end notes to each article. In addition, there is a clear synopsis of each of the eight chapters and reference to the writers or tradition which influences it. This enable the reader to dip and skip, skim and select in a way conducive to the student seeking understanding of a particular aspect of either Bleak House or literary theory. I would recommend this New Casebook as a precursor or warning of the kind of material awaiting the English Literature student at university, where literary theory shapes study.' - Carole Cox, The Use of English
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Jeremy Tambling teaches Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong.
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Bleak House, Lady Dedlock, Hillis Miller, New York, Esther Summerson, John Jarndyce, Sir Leicester, Charles Dickens, Miss Flite, Captain Hawdon, Chesney Wold, Richard Carstone, Chancery Court, David Copperfield, Lady Jane, Little Dorrit, Terry Eagleton, Allan Woodcourt, George Rouncewell, Inspector Bucket, Audrey Jaffe, Raymond Williams, Conversation Kenge, Household Words, Jacques Derrida New!
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Bleak House is a document about the interpretation of documents. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
telescopic philanthropy, double narrative, other narrator, other orphans, deconstructive criticism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bleak House, Lady Dedlock, Hillis Miller, New York, Esther Summerson, John Jarndyce, Sir Leicester, Charles Dickens, Miss Flite, Captain Hawdon, Chesney Wold, Richard Carstone, Chancery Court, David Copperfield, Lady Jane, Little Dorrit, Terry Eagleton, Allan Woodcourt, George Rouncewell, Inspector Bucket, Audrey Jaffe, Raymond Williams, Conversation Kenge, Household Words, Jacques Derrida New!
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- Little Dorrit (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens on 10 pages
- David Copperfield (Modern Library Classics) by Charles Dickens on 8 pages
- The Purloined Letter (Creative's Classics) by Edgar Allan Poe on 5 pages
- Dombey And Son on 5 pages
- Dickens: The Critical Heritage (Critical Heritage Series) by Philip Arthur William Collins on 4 pages
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- After Dickens: Reading, Adaptation and Performance (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) by John Glavin on 20 pages
- Gender at Work in Victorian Culture: Literature, Art and Masculinity (Nineteenth Century) by Martin A. Danahay on 18 pages
- Northrop Frye's Writings on the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Collected Works of Northrop Frye) by Imre Salusinszky on 11 pages
- Death and the Mother from Dickens to Freud: Victorian Fiction and the Anxiety of Origins (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) by Carolyn Dever on 10 pages
- Dickens as an Educator by James L. Hughes on 9 pages
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