Bleak House: Contemporary Critical Essays

by Jeremy Tambling (Editor)

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.

Genres: Nonfiction

254 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1998

Reviews

[Lara Beers]

I have all these great old books I inherited fro
my great-grandma. I am trying to work my way through them in her footsteps. She was a big fan of Dickens. This edition I have is signed by her from 1929.

[Mary Leahy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I listened to this on Audible. It was interesting.

[Maurice Halton · Rating 5 out of 5]

What can one say about CD? An amazing book that keeps the reader locked in to lives of the characters which are, in true Dickensian fashion, as large as life itself. Beautiful and not at all bleak.

[Adrienne Swindeman · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read Bleak House this past summer. Although I was in the midst of reading some more current books, I couldn't put this down and returned to the others later. I definitely recommend Bleak House.