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Gravil Richard |
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Titolo |
Reading "Bleak house" [[electronic resource] /] / by Richard Gravil |
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Penrith, CA, : HEB Humanities E-Books, c2012 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (129 p.) |
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Collana |
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Soggetti |
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Young women |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Cover""; ""Licence and Use""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents ""; ""Contents, continued""; ""A Note on the Author""; ""A Note on the Text""; ""Chapter 1. Why read Bleak House?""; ""1.1 Apocalypse Now?""; ""1.2 Experimental Fiction""; ""1.3 Reading for the plot""; ""1.4 You, the Detective""; ""1.5 Rewards""; ""Chapter 2: Dickens and his Times""; ""2.1 Charles Dickens""; ""2.2 Intellectual Context""; ""2.3 Fictional Contemporaries""; ""2.4 Topicality in Bleak House""; ""2.5 The Law""; ""2.6 Public Health""; ""2.7 Constitutional Deadlock"" |
""2.8 Exploitation, appropriation, and philanthropy""""2.9 Dandyism, Puseyism, Aestheticism, Aristocracy""; ""Chapter 3: Dramatis Personae""; ""3.1 Caricature and Characterisation""; ""3.2 Major Characters""; ""3.3 Doubles�analogous and antithetical""; ""Chapter 4: Reading Serially""; ""First Instalment""; ""Second Instalment""; ""Third Instalment""; ""Fourth Instalment""; ""Chapter 5: Reading Analytically""; ""From Chapter 2, �In Fashion�""; ""From Chapter 32, �The Appointed Time�""; ""From Chapter 38, �A Struggle� ""; ""Chapter 6: Dickens�s Craft"" |
""6.1 Narrative Technique""""6.2 Serialisation: Pluses and Minuses""; ""6.3 Satire, Irony, Humour, Comedy""; ""6.4 Imagery and Symbolism""; ""6.5 Language""; ""Chapter 7: Dickens and �the Woman Question�""; ""7.1 Nineteenth-Century Feminism""; ""7.2 Is Esther �a new woman�?""; ""7.3 Esther�s Engagement, Marriage and Bereavement""; ""Chapter 8: Reception and Bibliographies""; ""8.1 Early Reception and Studies of Topicality""; ""8.2 The Problem of Esther""; |
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""8.3 Feminist approaches""; ""8.4 Psychological Approaches""; ""8.5 Deconstruction""; ""8.6 Adaptations"" |
""8.7 Select Further Reading""""Literary Terms""; ""Humanities-Ebooks"" |
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