Charles Dickens's Bleak House

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 a