Bleak House; Editor: Tambling, Jeremy; Author: Dickens, Charles; Hardcover

Editor: Tambling, Jeremy; Author: Dickens, Charles
New Casebooks (Hardcover); Hardcover
Published: May 1998
St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 0312211201

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 poststructuralist methods. The introduction places the various essays in the context of current critical thinking, while itselfsuggesting an alternative viewpoint and the potential direction of future analysis of this most rewarding and stimulating text.