Charles Dickens's Bleak House by Janice M Allan

Charles Dickens's Bleak House by Janice M Allan

Regular price
Checking stock...
Regular price
Checking stock...
Summary

This guidebook examines Dickens' novel within its literary and cultural contexts providing an ideal orientation in the novel, its reception history and the critical material which surrounds it.

The feel-good place to buy books
  • Free US shipping over $15
  • Buying preloved emits 41% less CO2 than new
  • Millions of affordable books
  • Give your books a new home - sell them back to us!

Charles Dickens's Bleak House by Janice M Allan

With its sustained social criticism and complex construction, Charles Dickens's Bleak House (1853) is considered by many critics to be Dickens's most remarkable novel. Janice 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, 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, Janice Allan provides an invaluable guide to one of the nineteenth century's most important and frequently studied novels.

'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

SKU Unavailable
ISBN 13 9780415247733
ISBN 10 041524773X
Title Charles Dickens's Bleak House
Author Janice M Allan
Series Routledge Guides To Literature
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published 2004-05-20
Number of pages 176
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.