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bookcollection (10)in #dickens • yesterday
[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 • 11 days ago
[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 • 16 days ago
[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 • 21 days ago
[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 • 27 days 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 • last month
[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 • 2 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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