Bleak House
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Bleak House
（Broadview editions）
Broadview Press, c2011
- : pbk
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Note
"Charles Dickens: a brief chronology": p. 45-47
Bibliography: p. 827-829
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The labyrinthine, ingenious plot of Bleak House focuses on the seemingly endless lawsuit Jarndyce and Jarndyce, an inheritance dispute that has been moving through the courts for years. Dozens of characters, including the innocent young narrator Esther Summerson, her friends Richard Carstone and Ada Clare, and the jaded aristocrats Sir Leicester and Lady Honoria Dedlock, are directly or indirectly caught up in the case. Written in bold and inventive language, Bleak House is Dickens's epic vision of Victorian society.The critical introduction and extensive appendices to this edition focus on the novel's social context and reception, Dickens's treatment of his women characters and the working class, and the inequalities of the Victorian legal system.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Charles Dickens: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
Bleak House
Appendix A: Dickens's Working Notes for Bleak House
Appendix B: The Reception of Bleak House
Appendix C: The Role and Status of Women
Appendix D: The Court of Chancery
Appendix E: Attitudes to Religious and Other Proselytizing
Appendix F: Contemporary Attitudes to Class Inequality
Appendix G: Conditions of the Working Class
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