Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-158) and index.
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Contexts -- A Neglected Child -- The Rise of the Middle Classes -- Constructions of Gender and the Separate Spheres -- Slums, Sanitation and Policing -- Chancery Court -- The Literary Context -- Contemporary Documents -- From Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present (1843) -- From Hector Gavin, Sanitary Ramblings (1848) -- From Alfred Whaley Cole, 'The Martyrs of Chancery' (1850) -- From Charles Dickens, speech delivered to the Metropolitan Sanitary Association (1851) -- From Charles Dickens, 'On Duty with Inspector Field' (1851) -- From Charles Dickens, 'Suckling Pigs' (1851) -- Interpretations -- Critical History -- The Contemporary Reaction -- Reaction, Decline and Reassessment -- Dickens in the Twentieth Century -- Recent Developments -- Early Critical Reception -- From [Henry Fothergill Chorley], unsigned review, the Athenaeum (1853) -- From [George Brimley], unsigned review, the Spectator (1853) -- From anonymous review, the Illustrated London News (1853) -- From anonymous review, Bentley's Miscellany (1853) -- From anonymous review, Bentley's Monthly Review (1853) -- Modern Criticism -- From John Butt and Kathleen Tillotson, Dickens at Work (1957) -- From J. Hillis Miller, 'Interpretation in Bleak House' (1971) -- From Harvey P. Sucksmith, 'Sir Leicester Dedlock, Wat Tyler, and the Chartists: The Role of the Ironmaster in Bleak House' (1975) -- From F.S. Schwarzbach, Dickens and the City (1979) -- From Jane R. Cohen, Charles Dickens and His Original Illustrators (1980) -- From D.A. Miller, The Novel and the Police (1988) -- From Elizabeth Langland, Nobody's Angels: Middle-Class Women and Domestic Ideology in Victorian Culture (1995) -- From Carolyn Dever, Death and the Mother from Dickens to Freud: Victorian Fiction and the Anxiety of Origins (1998) -- From Hilary M. Schor, Dickens and the Daughter of the House (1999) -- Key Passages -- In Chancery -- In Fashion -- A Progress -- Telescopic Philanthropy -- A Morning Adventure -- The Ghost's Walk -- Covering a Multitude of Sins -- The Law-Writer -- On the Watch -- Tom-all-Alone's -- Mr Bucket -- The Appointed Time -- Esther's Narrative -- Chesney Wold -- Attorney and Client -- Jo's Will -- Esther's Narrative -- Esther's Narrative -- Beginning the World -- The Close of Esther's Narrative -- Book-length Studies of Dickens -- Collected Essays on Bleak House -- Articles on Bleak House.
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'Bleak House' is considered by many critics to be Dickens' most remakable novel. Janice Allan offers a starting point for those new to this weighty text & the daunting body of critical work that surrounds it.