• bookcollection (10)in #dickens • 3 days ago

  [Literature] Charles Dickens: Bleak House #10/501

  Jarndyce and Jarndyce is a “ ‘dark-looking case’ ” (p. 522), says Richard, who enters Chancery “from the outermost circle of … evil” (p. 21), plunges into “ ’the mysteries’ ” (p.…

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• bookcollection (10)in #dickens • 11 days ago

  [Literature] Charles Dickens: Bleak House #9/501

  There, the condition-of-England question has a clear answer: “Fog everywhere.” If anything is obscure about the country as represented in Bleak House,it is how it came to be in…

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• bookcollection (10)in #dickens • 19 days ago

  [Literature] Charles Dickens: Bleak House #8/501

  But it can be enabling, too, for when we learn that Jo, ”who is of no order and no place“ (p. 602), had been befriended by Nemo, whose name, we are so helpfully reminded, means…

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• bookcollection (10)in #dickens • 22 days ago

  [Literature] Charles Dickens: Bleak House #7/501

  In Bleak House,he appears to have been determined to inculcate this “infirmity” in his readers: “What connexion can there be … ?” is a question directed at us.In a novel that is…

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• bookcollection (10)in #esther • last month

  [Literature] Charles Dickens: Bleak House #6/501

  according to her own “ ’little orderly system’ ” (p. 503), hardly seems an adequate antidote to a system as extensively and devastatingly circuitous as Chancery.Inasmuch as…

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• bookcollection (10)in #dickens • last month

  [Literature] Charles Dickens: Bleak House #5/501

  Indeed, while John Ruskin argued that the number of deaths in Bleak House(nine, by his miscount; there are more) answered “a craving of the human heart for some kind of…

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• bookcollection (10)in #wiglomeration • last month

  [Literature] Charles Dickens: Bleak House #4/501

  Based in part on an actual case that had been dragging on for fifty-three years by 1851, the case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce in Bleak Houseepitomizes the “trickery, evasion…

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• bookcollection (10)in #dickens • 2 months ago

  [Literature] Charles Dickens: Bleak House #3/501

  Eclipsed by the Crystal Palace and the goods it encased, these realities were also effectively erased in 1851,when “the Exhibition‍—its glories and its wonders, its…

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• bookcollection (10)in #dickens • 2 months ago

  [Literature] Charles Dickens: Bleak House #2/501

  Comprehensive in its reach, exhaustive in its detail, Bleak Houseassimilates the multifarious characteristics of society into a coherent imaginative vision that is also a…

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• bookcollection (10)in #dickens • 3 months ago

  [Literature] Charles Dickens: Bleak House #1/501

  INTRODUCTION“ ‘What do you think of Bleak House?’is a question which everybody has heard propounded within the last few weeks, when this serial was drawing towards its…

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