"Supposing "Bleak House"" is an extended meditation on what many
consider to be Dickens's and nineteenth-century England's greatest
work of narrative fiction. Focusing on the novel's retrospective
narrator, whom he identifies as Esther Woodcourt in order to
distinguish her from her younger, unmarried self, John Jordan
offers provocative new readings of the novel's narrative structure,
its illustrations, its multiple and indeterminate endings, the role
of its famous detective, Inspector Bucket, its many ghosts, and its
relation to key events in Dickens's life during the years 1850 to
1853.
Jordan draws on insights from narratology and psychoanalysis in
order to explore multiple dimensions of Esther's complex
subjectivity and fractured narrative voice. His conclusion
considers Bleak House as a national allegory, situating it in the
context of the troubled decade of the 1840s and in relation to
Dickens's seldom-studied "A Child's History of England" (written
during the same years as his great novel) and to Jacques Derrida's
"Specters of Marx." "Supposing "Bleak House"" claims Dickens as a
powerful investigator of the unconscious mind and as a "popular"
novelist deeply committed to social justice and a politics of
inclusiveness.
"Victorian Literature and Culture Series"
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