INTRODUCTION
 

    As I announced in my First Paper, in this work I have tried to study Bleak House in itself from as many perspectives as possible. This means that I have focused in the novel and not in the context that surrounded its publication.
    From this point of start I think it is logical and necessary to read the book first. And so, I have made Two pages with it, one with the author's preface to the first edition in 1853. And the second one, the book, will be coming soon (since I have had some problems I have not been able to solve yet). Meanwhile, you can read it here. And also there is an index of the main characters so you can get an idea about them at any time.
    But due that I wanted to approach the maximum perspectives as possible, to approach the biographism and the historicism I have created a page for each category: Victorian timeline (historicism) and Dickens biography (biographism). In this subject, I have also handed you a chronology of the publications of the most important novels written by Dickens, to make it easier and quicker to get an idea of both the history and the author's biography.
    The main work is a recollection of the most interesting essays in the net about the book, plus an utterly interesting one taken from an "analogic" book (Churchill's Essay). The most famous one is Chesterton's Essay, by this literature critic, who studied the whole production of Dickens. The other two I have are Galloway's and Gissing's Essays. The first one is an study of the of the two worlds that appear in the novel (the public and the private world), and the second one is focused in the style of the author showed all the book long.
    And finally, I have included some Miscellaneous Information that is in fact a recollection of links to get further information about either Bleak House (filmography, analogic bibliography) or Charles Dickens (Dickens Pages).
    Without further ado, I invite you all to read my work (it is not compulsory to read the whole work, you can choose to read only those essays that interested you along this introduction). And if you have any suggestion, commentary, complaint, critic or correction to make, please e-mail me at any time:  jobaslo@alumni.uv.es
 
 
 
 

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    Curso Académico 1999/2000
    Narrativa en lengua inglesa I
    © Ioana Basterra López
    © a.r.e.a/ Dr. Vicente Forés López
    Universitat de València Press
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