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Description
It is in Bleak House that Dickens the realist and Dickens the modernist are often thought to meet. In the two intertwined but separate narratives, one from a woman's perspective and the other forming, arguably, the first detective novel in English, Dickens confronts modern England and modernity itself. The essays collected in this New Casebook embody some of the most exciting and challenging approaches to Dickens, using deconstructive, feminist, Marxist and post-structuralist methods. The Introduction places the various essays in the context of current critical thinking, while itself suggesting an alternative viewpoint and the potential direction of future analysis of this most rewarding and stimulating text.
Table of Contents
General Editor's Preface
Introduction; J.Tambling
Interpretation in Bleak House ;J.Hillis Miller
'The Universe Makes an Indifferent Parent': Bleak House and the Victorian Family Romance; C.van Boheemen-Saaf
Double Vision and the Double Standard in Bleak House: A Feminist Perspective; V.Blain
Discipline in Different Voices: Bureaucracy, Police, Family and Bleak House; D.A.Miller
Ideology and Critique in Dickens'sBleak House; D.Lacapra
Telescopic Philanthropy: Professionalism and Responsibility in Bleak House; B.Robbins
David Copperfield and Bleak House: On Dividing the Responsibility of Knowing; A.Jaffe
Re-Reading Bleak House: The Chronicle of a 'Little Body' and its Perverse Defence; K.Cummings
Esther's Will; T.Peltason
Losing One's Place: Displacement and Domesticity in Dicken's Bleak House; K.McLaughlin
Notes on the Contributors
Index.
Product details
| Published | Jun 08 1998 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 272 |
| ISBN | 9780333658598 |
| Imprint | Red Globe Press |
| Dimensions | Not specified |
| Series | New Casebooks |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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