The Companion to 'Bleak House' Shatto Susan
The Companion to 'Bleak House' Shatto Susan This book, first published in 1988, is the most comprehensive annotation of Bleak House ever undertaken. It also describes the novel's literary antecedents…
Specifikacia The Companion to 'Bleak House' Shatto Susan
The Companion to 'Bleak House' Shatto Susan
This book, first published in 1988, is the most comprehensive annotation of Bleak House ever undertaken. It also describes the novel's literary antecedents and identifies the sources of its hundreds of literary and historical allusions. It provides authoritative background information about the topical issues of the novel that interested Dickens as a social critic and activist.
The annotation is based on a wide range of nineteenth-century sources - from newspapers, periodicals and parliamentary papers to travel guides and cookery books - and gives the modern reader unprecedented access to both Bleak House - Dickens's tract for the times - and the period when it was