Charles Dickens's Bleak House

<p>With its sustained social criticism and complex construction, Charles Dickens's <em>Bleak House</em> (1853) is considered by many critics to be Dickens's most remarkable novel. Janice Allan:</p><ul> <li>introduces the contextual issues that most directly influenced Dickens's writing and reprints relevant source documents</li> <li>provides a comprehensive survey of the criticism of <em>Bleak House</em> from publication to the present, then introduces, reprints and annotates extracts from significant critical texts</li> <li>discusses key passages of the text, which are reprinted and fully annotated for ease of use</li> <li>includes cross-references throughout, making illuminating connections between the text, contexts and interpretations of the novel</li> <li>concludes the volume with suggestions to further reading, enabling additional focused study</li> </ul><p>Both accessible and informative, Janice Allan provides an invaluable guide to one of the nineteenth century's most important and frequently studied novels.</p>