English 564 Bleak House Biblio. (5)

English 564 Some Suggested Sources for Bleak House

Armstrong, Mary. “Multiplicities of Longing: The Queer Desires of Bleak House and Little Dorrit. Nineteenth-Century Studies 18 (2004): 59-79.

Armstrong, Nancy. “Fiction in the Age of Photography.” Narrative 7.1 (Jan. 1999): 37-55.

Axton, William. "The Trouble with Esther." Modern Language Quarterly 26 (1965): 545-77.

Ayres, Brenda. “The ‘Pattern’ of Bleak House: A Woman’s Story.” Dissenting Women in Dickens’s Novels: The Subversion of Domestic Ideology. Westport, Conn. and London: Greenwood Press, 1998. 141-155.

Benton, Graham. "'And Dying Thus Around Us Every Day': Pathology, Ontology and the Discourse of the Diseased Body, A Study of Illness and Contagion in BH. Dickens Quarterly 11.2 (Aug. 1994): 69-80.

Blain, Virginia. "Double Vision and the Double Standard in Bleak House." In Tambling. 65-86

Blake, Kathleen. “Bleak House, Political Eco., Victorian Studies.” Victorian Literature and Culture (1997): 1-21.

Bloom, Harold, Ed. Charles Dickens's Bleak House. New York: Chelsea House, 1987.

Boheeman, Christine van. "'The Universe Makes an Indifferent Parent': Bleak House and the Victorian Family Romance." Interpreting Lacan (Psychiatry and the Humanities 6). Eds. Joseph H. Smith and William Kerrigan. New Haven: Yale UP, 1983

Budd, Donna. "Language Couples in BH." Nineteenth-Century Literature 49.2 (Sept. 1994).

Burgan, Mary. “Contagion and Culture: A View from Victorian Studies.” American Literary History 14.4 (Winter 2002): 837-44.

Carens, Timothy. “The Civilizing Mission at Home: Empire, Gender, and National Reform in Bleak House.” Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian-Fiction 26 (1998): 121-45.

Cole, Natalie Bell. “’Attached to life again’: the “Queer Beauty” of Convalescence in Bleak House. The Victorian Newsletter 103 (Spring ’03): 16-19.

Collins, Philip. “Some Narrative Devices in Bleak House.” Dickens Studies Annual 19 (1990): 125-146.

Cowles, David L. “Methods of Inquiry, Modes of Evidence: Perception, Self-Deception, and Truth in Bleak House.” The Dickensian 87.3 (Autumn 1991): 153-63.

Currie, Richard A. “Against the Feminine Stereotype: Dickens's Esther Summerson and Conduct-Book Heroines.” Dickens Quarterly 16.1 (March 1999): 13-23.

Eggert, Paul. “The Real Esther Summerson.” Dickens Studies Newsletter 11 (1980): 74-81. English 564 Bleak House biblio. (2)

Feinberg, Monica. "Family Plot: The Bleak House of Victorian Romance." Victorian Newsletter (Fall 1989): 5-17.

Fletcher, LuAnn McCracken. “A Recipe for Perversion: The Feminine Narrative Challenge in Bleak House.” Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Literature 25 (1996): 67-89.

Gaughan, Richard T. "'Their Places are a Blank': The Two Narrators in Bleak House." Dickens Studies Annual 21 (1992): 79-96.

Gilbert, Eliott L. Critical Essays on Charles Dickens's BH. Boston: G.K. Hall, '1989.

Goodman, Marcia Renee. '"I'll Follow the Other': Tracing the (M)other in Bleak House," Dickens Studies Annual 19 (1990): 147-167.

Gottfried, Barbara. "Fathers and Suitors: Narratives of Desire in Bleak House." Dickens Studies Annual 19 (1990): 169-203.

----. "Household Arrangements and the Patriarchal Order in Bleak House." The Journal of Narrative Technique (Winter 1994): 1-17

Graver, Suzanne. “Writing in a ‘Womanly’ Way and the Double Vision of Bleak House.” Dickens Quarterly 4.1 (March 1987): 3-15.

Hack, “’Sublimation Strange’: Allegory and Authority in Bleak House.’ ELH 66.1 (1999): 129- 56.

Hall, Jasmine Yong. "What's Troubling About Esther? Narrating, Policing and Resisting Arrest in BH." Dickens Studies Annual 22 (1993): 171-194.

Houston, Gail Turley. “’Unmindful of Wants’: Dickens’s Litle Women and the Accession of Desire in Bleak House and Little Dorrit. Consuming Fictions: Gender, class, and Hunger in Dickens’s Novels. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois UP, 1994. 123-53.

Hutter, Albert D. “The High Tiw

Jolly, Diane L. “The Nature of Esther.” The Dickensian 86. 1 (Spring 1990): 29-40

Kearns, Michael S. “'But I Cried Very Much': Esther Summerson as Narrator.” Dickens Quarterly 1.4 (Dec 1984): 121-129

Kennedy, Valerie. "Bleak House: More Trouble with Esther?" Journal of Women's Studies in Literature 1 (1979): 330-47.

Killian, Crawford. "In Defense of Esther Summerson." Dalhousie Review (1974): 318-28.

Korb, Jacob. Twentieth-Century Interpretations of Bleak House. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1968.

Kucich, John. Excess and Restraint in the Novels of Charles Dickens. U of Georgia P, 1991. English 564 Bleak House biblio. (3)

LaCapra, Dominick. "Ideology and Critique in Dickens's BH." Representations 6 (Spring 1984): 116- 23.

Lesser, Wendy. “From Dickens to Conrad: A Sentimental Journey.” ELH 52.1 (Spring 1985): 185-208.

Lewison, Janet. “Ambivalent Hierarchies of Intimacy in Bleak House.” In Gillis, Stacy and Philippa Gates, ed. The Devil Himself: Villainy in Detective Fiction and Film. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002. 25-38

Lougy, Robert E. “Filth, Liminality, and Abjection in Charles Dickens's Bleak House. ELH 69.2 (Summer 2002): 473-500.

McLaughlin, Kevin. "Losing One's Place: Displacement and Domesticity in D's BH," MLN, 108 (1993). And in Tambling, 228-45.

Malone, Cynthia Norcutt. “’Flight’ and ‘Pursuit’: Fugitive Identity in Bleak House.” Dickens Studies Annual 19 (1990): 107-124.

Michie, Helena. "'Who is this in Pain?': Scarring, Disfigurement, and Female Identity in BH and Our Mutual Friend," Novel (Winter 1989)

Milbank, Alison. Daughters of the House: Modes of the Gothic in Victorian Fiction. New York: ST. Martin’s Press, 1992.

Miller, D. A. "Discipline in Different Voices: Bureaucracy, Police, Family, and Bleak House." In The Novel and the Police. Berkeley: Univ. of California P, 1988.

Miller, J. Hillis. Charles Dickens: The World of His Novels. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1958.

----. "Bleak House." In 20th-Century Interpretations of Bleak House. Ed. Jacob Korb. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1968.

Moers, Ellen. "Bleak House: The Agitating Women." The Dickensian 69 (Jan. 1973): 13-24.

Monod, Sylvere. "Esther Summerson, Charles Dickens and the Reader of Bleak House. Dickens Studies (1969): 5-24.

Newsom, Robert. Dickens on the Romantic Side of Familiar Things: Bleak House and the Novel Tradition. New York: Columbia UP, 1977.

---. “Villette and Bleak House: Authorizing Women.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 46.1 (June 1991): 54-81.

Nord, Deborah Epstein. "'Vitiated Air': The Polluted City and Female Sexuality in Dombey and Son and Bleak House. “ Walking the Victorian Streets. Cornell UP, 1995.

Peltason, Timothy. "Esther's Will." ELH 59 (1992): 671-91. And in Tambling, 205-27.

Pritchard, Allan. “The Urban Gothic of Bleak House.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 45.4 (march 1991): 432-52. English 564 Bleak House biblio. (4)

Sadrin, Anny. “Time, Tense, Weather in Three ‘Flood’ Novels: Bleak House, The Mill on the Floss, To the Lighthouse.” Yearbook of English Studies 30 (2000): 96-105.

Salotto, Eleanor. “Detecting Esther Summerson's Secrets: Dickens's Bleak House of Representation.” Victorian Literature and Culture 25.2 (1997): 333-49.

Schor, Hilary M. “Bleak House and the Dead Mother’s Property.” In Dickens and the Daughter of the House. Cambridge and NY: Cambridge UP, ’99.

--- and Nomi M. Stolzenberg. “Bastard Daughters and Illegitimate Mothers: Burning Down the Courthouse in Bastard Out of Carolina and Bleak House.” Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature 18 (2002): 109-29.

Senf, Carol. “Bleak House: “Dickens, Esther, and the Androgynous Mind.” Victorian Newsletter 64 (Fall 1983): 21-27

Schwartzbach, F. S. "BH: The Social Pathology of Urban Life." Literature and Medicine. Vol. 9. Fictive Ills: Literary Perspectives on Wounds and Diseases. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1990.

Shatto, Susan. "Lady Dedlock and the Plot of Bleak House." Dickens Quarterly 5.4 (Dec. 1988): 185- 191.

Slater, Michael. Dickens and Women. Palo Alto: Stanford UP, 1983.

Smalley, R. Ann. "Crossing Gulfs: The Importance of the Master-Servant Relation in Dickens's BH. "The Dickensian, 85.3 (Aut. 1989): 151-160.

Smith, Monika Rydygier. "The W/Hole Remains: Consumerist Politics in Bleak House, Great Expectations, and Our Mutual Friend." Victorian Review 19.1 (Summer 1993): 1-21.

Sternlieb, Lisa. “Esther Summerson: Looking Twice.” The Female Narrator in The British Novel: Hidden Agendas. New York: Palgrave, 2002.

Tambling, Jeremy, ed. and introd. Bleak House. New York, NY: St. Martin's, 1998.

Thoms, Peter. "'The Narrow Track of Blood': Detection and Storytelling in Bleak House." Nineteenth- Century Literature 50.2 (Sept. 1992): 147-67.

Vanden Bossche, Chris R. “Class Discourse and Popular Agency in Bleak House.” Victorian Studies 47.1 (Autumn 2004): 7-31.

Wilt, Judith. "Confusion and Consciousness in Dickens's Esther." Nineteenth-Century Fiction 32 (1977): 285-309. Also in Bloom.

Wright, Kay Hetherly. "The Grotesque and Urban Chaos in Bleak House." Dickens Studies Annual 21 (1992): 97-112.

Zwerdling, Alex. "Esther Summerson Rehabilitated." PMLA 88 (May 1973): 429-39. Also in Bloom.