Supposing Bleak House
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Supposing Bleak House
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Author : John O. Jordan
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2011-02-23
Supposing Bleak House written by John O. Jordan and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
Supposing "Bleak House" is an extended meditation on what many consider to be Dickens’s and nineteenth-century England’s greatest work of narrative fiction. Focusing on the novel’s retrospective narrator, whom he identifies as Esther Woodcourt in order to distinguish her from her younger, unmarried self, John Jordan offers provocative new readings of the novel’s narrative structure, its illustrations, its multiple and indeterminate endings, the role of its famous detective, Inspector Bucket, its many ghosts, and its relation to key events in Dickens’s life during the years 1850 to 1853. Jordan draws on insights from narratology and psychoanalysis in order to explore multiple dimensions of Esther’s complex subjectivity and fractured narrative voice. His conclusion considers Bleak House as a national allegory, situating it in the context of the troubled decade of the 1840s and in relation to Dickens’s seldom-studied A Child’s History of England (written during the same years as his great novel) and to Jacques Derrida’s Specters of Marx.Supposing "Bleak House" claims Dickens as a powerful investigator of the unconscious mind and as a "popular" novelist deeply committed to social justice and a politics of inclusiveness. Victorian Literature and Culture Series
Bleak House I
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Author : Dickens C.
language : en
Publisher: Рипол Классик
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Bleak House I written by Dickens C. and has been published by Рипол Классик this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery. The obscure case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs, the romance of Esther Summerson and the secrets of her origin, the sleuthing of Detective Inspector Bucket and the fate of Jo the crossing-sweeper, these are some of the lives Dickens invokes to portray London society, rich and poor, as no other novelist has done.
Bleak House
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Author : Charles Dickens
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-11-01
Bleak House written by Charles Dickens and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-01 with categories.
"[...]shame of-a parsimonious public. There is only one other point on which I offer a word of remark. The possibility of what is called spontaneous combustion has been denied since the death of Mr. Krook; and my good friend Mr. Lewes (quite mistaken, as he soon found, in supposing the thing to have been abandoned by all authorities) published some ingenious letters to me at the time when that event was chronicled, arguing that spontaneous combustion could not possibly be. I have no need to observe that I do not wilfully or negligently mislead my readers and that before I wrote that description I took pains to investigate the subject. There are about thirty cases on record, of which the most famous, that of the Countess Cornelia de Baudi Cesenate, was minutely investigated and described by Giuseppe Bianchini, a prebendary of Verona, otherwise distinguished in letters, who published an account of it at Verona in 1731, which he afterwards republished at Rome. The appearances, beyond all rational doubt, observed in that case are the appearances observed in Mr. Krook's case. The next most famous instance happened at Rheims six years earlier, and the historian in that case is Le Cat, one of the most renowned surgeons produced by France. The subject was a woman, [...]".
Knowing Dickens
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Author : Rosemarie Bodenheimer
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2012-11-09
Knowing Dickens written by Rosemarie Bodenheimer and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this compelling and accessible book, Rosemarie Bodenheimer explores the thoughtworld of the Victorian novelist who was most deeply intrigued by nineteenth-century ideas about the unconscious mind. Dickens found many ways to dramatize in his characters both unconscious processes and acts of self-projection—notions that are sometimes applied to him as if he were an unwitting patient. Bodenheimer explains how the novelist used such techniques to negotiate the ground between knowing and telling, revealing and concealing. She asks how well Dickens knew himself—the extent to which he understood his own nature and the ways he projected himself in his fictions—and how well we can know him. Knowing Dickens is the first book to systematically explore Dickens's abundant correspondence in relation to his published writings. Gathering evidence from letters, journalistic essays, stories, and novels that bear on a major issue or pattern of response in Dickens's life and work, Bodenheimer cuts across familiar storylines in Dickens biography and criticism in chapters that take up topics including self-defensive language, models of memory, relations of identification and rivalry among men, houses and household management, and walking and writing.
The Dreamers
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Author : Karen Thompson Walker
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2019-01-15
The Dreamers written by Karen Thompson Walker and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-15 with Fiction categories.
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • An ordinary town is transformed by a mysterious illness that triggers perpetual sleep in this mesmerizing novel from the bestselling author of The Age of Miracles. “Stunning.”—Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven • “A startling, beautiful portrait of a community in peril.”—Entertainment Weekly NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Glamour • Real Simple • Good Housekeeping One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her dorm room, falls asleep—and doesn’t wake up. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. Her roommate, Mei, cannot rouse her. Neither can the paramedics, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital. When a second girl falls asleep, and then a third, Mei finds herself thrust together with an eccentric classmate as panic takes hold of the college and spreads to the town. A young couple tries to protect their newborn baby as the once-quiet streets descend into chaos. Two sisters turn to each other for comfort as their survivalist father prepares for disaster. Those affected by the illness, doctors discover, are displaying unusual levels of brain activity, higher than has ever been recorded before. They are dreaming heightened dreams—but of what? Written in luminous prose, The Dreamers is a breathtaking and beautiful novel, startling and provocative, about the possibilities contained within a human life—if only we are awakened to them. Praise for The Dreamers “Walker’s roving fictive eye by turns probes characters’ innermost feelings and zooms out to coolly parse topics like reality versus delusion. . . . [It has] the perfect ambiguous frame for a tense and layered plot.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “[Walker’s] gripping, provocative novel should come with a warning: may cause insomnia.”—People (Book of the Week) “Powerful and moving . . . written with symphonic sweep.”—The New York Times Book Review “2019’s first must-read novel . . . Alternately terrifying and moving . . . The Dreamers is overflowing with humanity.”—Jezebel “This is an exquisite work of intimacy. Walker’s sentences are smooth, emotionally arresting—of a true, ethereal beauty. . . . This book achieves [a] dazzling, aching humanity.”—Entertainment Weekly
The Cambridge Companion To Charles Dickens
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Author : John O. Jordan
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2001-06-18
The Cambridge Companion To Charles Dickens written by John O. Jordan and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-06-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens contains fourteen specially-commissioned chapters by leading international scholars, who together provide diverse but complementary approaches to the full span of Dickens's work, with particular focus on his major fiction. The essays cover the whole range of Dickens's writing, from Sketches by Boz through The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Separate chapters address important thematic topics: childhood, the city, and domestic ideology. Others consider formal features of the novels, including their serial publication and Dickens's distinctive use of language. Three final chapters examine Dickens in relation to work in other media: illustration, theatre, and film. Each essay provides guidance to further reading. The volume as a whole offers a valuable introduction to Dickens for students and general readers, as well as fresh insights, informed by recent critical theory, that will be of interest to scholars and teachers of the novels.
Bleak House
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Author : Charles Dickens
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-08-16
Bleak House written by Charles Dickens and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-16 with categories.
There is only one other point on which I offer a word of remark. The possibility of what is called Spontaneous Combustion has been denied since the death of Mr. Krook and my good friend mr. Lewes (quite mistaken, as he soon found, in supposing the thing to have been abandoned by all authorities) published some ingenious letters to me at the time when that event was chronicled, arguing that Spontaneous Combustion could not possibly be. I have no need to observe that I do not wilfully or negligently mislead my readers, and that before I wrote that description I took pains to investigate the subject. There are about thirty cases on record, of which the most famous, that of the Countess Cornelia de Baudi Cesenate, was minutely investigated and described by Giuseppe Bianchini, a prebendary of Verona, otherwise dis tinguished in letters, who published an account of it at Verona, in 17 31, which he afterwards republished at Rome. The appearances beyond all rational doubt observed in that case, are the appearances observed in Mr. Krook's case. The next most famous instance happened at Rheims, six years earlier 5 and the historian in that case is LE cat, one of the most renowned surgeons produced by France. The subject was a woman, whose husband was ignorantly convicted of having murdered her but, on solemn appeal to a higher court, he was acquitted, because it was shown upon the evidence that she had died the death to which this name of Spontaneous Com bustion is given. I do not think it necessary to add to these notable facts, and that general reference to the authorities which will be found at page 234, the recorded opinions and experiences of distinguished medical professors, French, English, and Scotch, in more modern days 5 contenting myself with observing, that I shall not abandon the facts until there shall have been a considerable Spontaneous Combustion of the testimony on which human occurrences are usually received. In Bleak House, I have purposely dwelt upon the romantic side of familiar things.
Charles Dickens And His Publishers
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Author : Robert L. Patten
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2017
Charles Dickens And His Publishers written by Robert L. Patten and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This fascinating volume relates the story of Dicken's social encounters, violent breaches, and uneasy alliances with his publishers and illustrates how the conditions of publishing had much to do with the shape and success of Dicken's career.
Bleak House Annotated
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Author : Charles Dickens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-02-21
Bleak House Annotated written by Charles Dickens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-21 with categories.
This is an annotated version of the book1. contains an updated biography of the author at the end of the book for a better understanding of the text.2. This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errorsA Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of acompany of some hundred and fifty men and women not labouring underany suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though theshining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thoughtthe judge's eye had a cast in my direction), was almost immaculate.There had been, he admitted, a trivial blemish or so in its rate ofprogress, but this was exaggerated and had been entirely owing to the"parsimony of the public," which guilty public, it appeared, had beenuntil lately bent in the most determined manner on by no meansenlarging the number of Chancery judges appointed--I believe byRichard the Second, but any other king will do as well.This seemed to me too profound a joke to be inserted in the body ofthis book or I should have restored it to Conversation Kenge or toMr. Vholes, with one or other of whom I think it must haveoriginated. In such mouths I might have coupled it with an aptquotation from one of Shakespeare's sonnets: "My nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand: Pity me, then, and wish I were renewed!"But as it is wholesome that the parsimonious public should know whathas been doing, and still is doing, in this connexion, I mention herethat everything set forth in these pages concerning the Court ofChancery is substantially true, and within the truth. The case ofGridley is in no essential altered from one of actual occurrence,made public by a disinterested person who was professionallyacquainted with the whole of the monstrous wrong from beginning toend. At the present moment (August, 1853) there is a suit before thecourt which was commenced nearly twenty years ago, in which fromthirty to forty counsel have been known to appear at one time, inwhich costs have been incurred to the amount of seventy thousandpounds, which is A FRIENDLY SUIT, and which is (I am assured) nonearer to its termination now than when it was begun. There isanother well-known suit in Chancery, not yet decided, which wascommenced before the close of the last century and in which more thandouble the amount of seventy thousand pounds has been swallowed up incosts. If I wanted other authorities for Jarndyce and Jarndyce, Icould rain them on these pages, to the shame of--a parsimoniouspublic.There is only one other point on which I offer a word of remark. Thepossibility of what is called spontaneous combustion has been deniedsince the death of Mr. Krook; and my good friend Mr. Lewes (quitemistaken, as he soon found, in supposing the thing to have beenabandoned by all authorities) published some ingenious letters to meat the time when that event was chronicled, arguing that spontaneouscombustion could not possibly be. I have no need to observe that I donot wilfully or negligently mislead my readers and that before Iwrote that description I took pains to investigate the subject. Thereare about thirty cases on record, of which the most famous, that ofthe Countess Cornelia de Baudi Cesenate, was minutely investigatedand described by Giuseppe Bianchini, a prebendary of Verona,otherwise distinguished in letters, who published an account of it atVerona in 1731, which he afterwards republished at Rome. Theappearances, beyond all rational doubt, observed in that case are theappearances observed in Mr. Krook's case. The next most famousinstance happened at Rheims six years earlier, and the historian inthat case is Le Cat, one of the most renowned surgeons produced byFrance. The subject was a woman, whose husband was ignorantlyconvicted of having murdered her; but on solemn appeal to a highercourt,
Bleak House
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language : en
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
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