Dickens: Bleak House

A detailed analysis of the principal themes and unique structure of Dicken's Bleak House.

Graham Storey (Author)

9780521316910, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 31 October 1986

128 pages
19.8 x 12.9 x 1 cm, 0.16 kg

Graham Storey explores Dickens's vital engagement with some of the most intractable social and political issues of his day, and shows how these are reflected in the plot and characterization of Bleak House. In his detailed analysis of the novel's principal themes and unique structure, he shows why it occupies a pivotal position in Dickens's career. He also assesses the surprisingly varied reception this great novel has had, and places it in the context of European literature as a whole.

1. Bleak House: the background
2. Bleak House: the novel
3. Critical reception
4. Context in European literature.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK]