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Esther's Narrative in Bleak House
… specifically Esther Summerson in the novel Bleak House. The introduction examines his habit of interrupting the speech of his characters with direct authorial comments in order that he not give up his story entirely to a character, even in an extended first-person narration. It is noted that …
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Charles Dickens' Trope of Great Gulfs: Irony in Bleak House
In Bleak House, Charles Dickens artistically and ironically manipulates language to expose burgeoning socio-political gaps in Victorian times, most notably those that involve people who have access to money, power, food and salvation, and people who do not. Dickens refers to the unlikelihood of two …
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Dickens and the Critics of 'Bleak House,' 1851-1965: A Study in Depth
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'What is Life But Learning!': Informal Education in A Christmas Carol, Bleak House, and Great Expectations
… Dickens's novels: A Christmas Carol (1843), Bleak House (1852), and Great Expectations (1860). While substantial scholarly attention has been paid to Dickens's interest in formal education, for example his educational reform efforts, his fictional depictions of schools and schooling, and his …
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Dickens and the Problem of Maturity: 'Dombey and Son,' 'David Copperfield,' 'Bleak House,' 'Great Expectations,' and 'Our Mutual Friend.'
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Narrative Method and Point of View in Bleak Houe
<p>Bleak House, like most of Dickens's novels, was originally published as a monthly serial. Each month, from March 1852 until August 1853, a new number consisting - thirty-two pages divided into three or four chapters was issued. The final double number XIX/XX, consisting of eight chapters, …
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THE LITERACIES OF LITERARY TEXTS: RHETORICAL BRIDGES BETWEEN ENGLISH STUDIES DISCIPLINES AND FIRST-YEAR WRITERS
… characters can be presented as examples, I read Bleak House, Dracula, and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There as illustrative texts demonstrating how community membership depends on the rhetorical knowledge of literacy practices. Moving beyond the analytical, I apply my readings …
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Fictional Selves: Creating Identity in the Victorian Fictional Autobiography
… character. <em>David Copperfield</em> and <em>Bleak House</em> by Dickens and <em>Jane Eyre</em> and <em>Villette</em> by C. Bronte are openly imaginative works, but they are told through the thematic and formal conventions of the nascent genre of autobiography. I propose that the dual presence …
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On the Distinctiveness of the Russian Novel: The Brothers Karamazov and the English Tradition
… povarikha, 1770), and Charles Dickens's Bleak House (1853) alongside Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov (1880), concentrating particularly on matters of formal design, corporeal integrity and vulnerability, and communal harmony and discord--and by understanding the English texts …
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The Classic-Novel Adaptation from 1995 to 2009
… redefined by Davies’s ‘soap-like’ treatment of Bleak House (2005). A concluding chapter examines classic-novel adaptation in 2009, returning to Austen as emblematic of many of the issues confronting the genre, and offering some thoughts about its immediate future. Above all, this study …
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Wandering Women: Sexual and Social Stigma in the Mid-Victorian Novel
… exists between Coventry Patmore's "angel of the house" and the New Woman of the fin de siecle. I call this character the Wandering Woman. This new archetypal character adheres to the following list of characteristics: she is a literal or figurative orphan, is genteelly poor or of the working …
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Recasting the social critic : social commentary in selected novels of Charles Dickens and Terry Pratchett
… are analysed in two novels by each author: Bleak House and Hard Times by Dickens and Going Postal and Snuff by Pratchett. Analysing these novels according to Bakhtin's theory of polyphony and heteroglossia reveal that character voices in the works of both novels become stratified, turning …
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Jane Eyre And Her Transatlantic Literary Descendants: The Heroic Female Bildungsroman And Constructions Of National Identity
… other popular novels, primarily Charles Dickens' Bleak House (1852) and Jane Eyre; critics have even identified the influence of Villette in the final chapter of Crafts's novel. The treatment of Jane Eyre and Villette in The Bondwoman's Narrative is a distinctive addition to current scholarship on …