Charles Dickens's Bleak House : A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook

ISBN-13: 9780415247733 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 176 str.

Janice Allan

Opis

With its sustained social criticism and complex construction, Charles Dickens's Bleak House (1853) is considered by many critics to be his most remarkable novel. This Routledge Literary Sourcebook offers a starting point for those new to Dickens's weighty text and the daunting body of critical work that surrounds it. Janice M. Allan: Introduces the contextual issues that most directly influenced Dickens's writing and reprints relevant source documents Provides a comprehensive survey of the criticism of Bleak House from publication to the present, then introduces, reprints and annotates extracts from significant critical texts Discusses key passages of the text, which are reprinted and fully annotated for ease of use Includes cross-references throughout the Sourcebook, making illuminating connections between the text, contexts and interpretations of the novel Concludes the volume with suggestions to further reading, enabling additional focused study Both accessible and informative, this Sourcebook is an invaluable guide to one of the nineteenth century's most important and rewarding novels.

Recenzje

'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

O autorze

Janice M. Allan