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Reading "Bleak house" /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gravil, Richard (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Penrith, CA : HEB Humanities E-Books, 2012.
Colección:Literature insights.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Licence and Use
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Contents, continued
  • A Note on the Author
  • A Note on the Text
  • Chapter 1. Why read Bleak House?
  • 1.1 Apocalypse Now?
  • 1.2 Experimental Fiction
  • 1.3 Reading for the plot
  • 1.4 You, the Detective
  • 1.5 Rewards
  • Chapter 2: Dickens and his Times
  • 2.1 Charles Dickens
  • 2.2 Intellectual Context
  • 2.3 Fictional Contemporaries
  • 2.4 Topicality in Bleak House
  • 2.5 The Law
  • 2.6 Public Health
  • 2.7 Constitutional Deadlock
  • 2.8 Exploitation, appropriation, and philanthropy2.9 Dandyism, Puseyism, Aestheticism, Aristocracy
  • Chapter 3: Dramatis Personae
  • 3.1 Caricature and Characterisation
  • 3.2 Major Characters
  • 3.3 Doublesâ€?analogous and antithetical
  • Chapter 4: Reading Serially
  • First Instalment
  • Second Instalment
  • Third Instalment
  • Fourth Instalment
  • Chapter 5: Reading Analytically
  • From Chapter 2, â€?In Fashionâ€?
  • From Chapter 32, â€?The Appointed Timeâ€?
  • From Chapter 38, â€?A Struggleâ€?
  • Chapter 6: Dickensâ€?s Craft
  • 6.1 Narrative Technique6.2 Serialisation: Pluses and Minuses
  • 6.3 Satire, Irony, Humour, Comedy
  • 6.4 Imagery and Symbolism
  • 6.5 Language
  • Chapter 7: Dickens and â€?the Woman Questionâ€?
  • 7.1 Nineteenth-Century Feminism
  • 7.2 Is Esther â€?a new womanâ€??
  • 7.3 Estherâ€?s Engagement, Marriage and Bereavement
  • Chapter 8: Reception and Bibliographies
  • 8.1 Early Reception and Studies of Topicality
  • 8.2 The Problem of Esther
  • 8.3 Feminist approaches
  • 8.4 Psychological Approaches
  • 8.5 Deconstruction
  • 8.6 Adaptations
  • 8.7 Select Further ReadingLiterary Terms
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