Supposing Bleak House / John O. Jordan.
Supposing "Bleak House" is an extended meditation on what many consider to be Dickens's and nineteenth-century England's greatest work of narrative fiction. Focusing on the novel's retrospective narrator John Jordan offers new readings of the novel's narrative structure...
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Full Text (via ProQuest) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2010, ©2011.
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| Series: | Victorian literature and culture series.
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| Summary: | Supposing "Bleak House" is an extended meditation on what many consider to be Dickens's and nineteenth-century England's greatest work of narrative fiction. Focusing on the novel's retrospective narrator John Jordan offers new readings of the novel's narrative structure, its illustrations, its multiple and indeterminate endings, the role of its famous detective, Inspector Bucket, its many ghosts, and its relation to key events in Dickens's life during the years 1850 to 1853. --from publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 184 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-177) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813930923 0813930928 1280490748 9781280490743 9786613585974 6613585971 |