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...
With its sustained social criticism and complex construction, Charles Dickens's Bleak House (1853) is considered by many critics to be his most remark...