The Prince Regent

Bleak House: Selected Bibliography

Armstrong, Nancy. Fiction in the Age of Photography: The Legacy of British Realism. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. Chapter 3.

Axton, William. "The Trouble with Esther." Modern Language Quarterly (1965):545-57.

Bigelow, Gordon. "Market Indicators: Banking and Domesticity in Dickens’s Bleak House." ELH 67 (2000): 589-615.

Blake, Kathleen. “Bleak House, Political Economy, Victorian Studies.” Victorian Literature and Culture 25 (1997): 1-21.

Buzard, James. “'Anywhere's Nowhere': Bleak House as Autoethnography.” Yale Journal of Criticism: Interpretation in the Humanities 12 (1999): 7-39.

Carens, Timothy. "The Civilizing Mission at Home: Empire, Gender, and National Reform in Bleak House." Dickens Studies Annual 26 (1998): 121-147.

Danahay, Martin A. "Housekeeping and Hegemony in Bleak House." Studies in the Novel 23 (1991):416-31.

Fasick, Laura. "Dickens and the Diseased Body in Bleak House." Dickens Studies Annual 24 (1996):135-51.

Goodlad, Lauren. Victorian Literature and the Victorian State: Character and Governance in a Liberal Society. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. [Revised version of VLC article.]

Goodman, Marcia Renee. "'I'll Follow the Other': Tracing the (M)other in Bleak House." Dickens Studies Annual 19 (1990):147-67.

Gordon, Jan B. "Dickens and the Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Narratives of ‘Legitimacy.’" Dickens Studies Annual 31 (2002): 203-65.

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." Journal of Narrative Technique 24 (1994):1-17.

Hack, Daniel. "'Sumblimation Strange': Allegory and Authority in Bleak House." ELH 66 (1999): 129-156.

Jaffe, Audrey. Vanishing Points: Dickens, Narrative, and the Subject of Omniscience. New York, NY: St. Martin’ s, 1998. 163-82.

Kucich, John. Repression in Victorian Fiction: Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot , and Charles Dickens. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

LaCapra, Dominick. "Ideology and Critique in Dickens’s Bleak House." Rpt. in Jeremy Tambling, ed. Bleak House. New York, NY: St. Martin’ s, 1998. 128-38.

Lougy, Robert E. "Filth, Liminality, and Abject in Charles Dickens' Bleak House." ELH 69 (2002): 473-500.

McLaughlin, Kevin. "Losing One's Place: Displacement and Domesticity in Dicken's Bleak House." MLN 108 (1993): 875-90. Rpt. in Tambling 228-45.

Michie, Helena. "'Who is This in Pain?': Scarring and Disfigurement, and Female Identity in Bleak House and Our Mutual Friend." Novel 22 (1989):199-212.

Miller, D. A. The Novel and the Police. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.

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

--. Victorian Subjects. Durham: Duke Univ. Press, 1991. 179-99 This essay, "Interpretation in Bleak House," was originally the introduction to a now out of print Penguin edition. It is also repinted in Tambling 29-53.

--. "Moments of Decision in Bleak House." In John O. Jordan, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens. Cambridge, England: Cambridge UP, 2001. 49-63.

Morris, Pam. Dickens's Class Consciousness. New York: St. Martins, 1991.

——. Imagining Inclusive Society in Nineteenth-Century Novels. Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. [Revised version of ELH article.]

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

Peltason, Timothy. "Esther's Will." ELH 59 (1992):671-91.

Polloczek, Dieter Paul. "The Marginal, the Equitable, and the Unparalleled: Lady Dedlock’s Case in Dickens’s Bleak House." New Literary History 30 (1999): 453-78.

Robbins, Bruce. "Telescopic Philantropy: Professionalism and Responsibility in Bleak House." In Tambling 139-62.

Salotto, Eleanor. "Detecting Esther Summerson’s Secrets: Dickens’s Bleak House of Representation." Victorian Literature and Culture 25 (1997): 333-49.

Schor, Hilary. "Dickens and the Daughter of the House. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.

Sen, Sambudha. "Bleak House and Little Dorrit: The Radical Heritage." ELH 65 (1998): 945-70.

——. "Bleak House, Vanity Fair, and the Making of an Urban Aesthetic." Nineteenth C-ntury Literature 54 (2000): 480-502.

Tambling, Jeremy, ed. Bleak House. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. This is a collection of recent criticism (some are cited in this bibliography).

Thomas, Ronald R. "Making Darkness Visible: Capturing the Criminal and Observing the Law in Victorian Photography and Detective Fiction." In Christ Carol T., John O. Jordan, eds. Victorian Literature and the Victorian Visual Imagination. Berkeley : U of California P, 1995. 134-68.

Thoms, Peter. "'The Narrow Track of Blood': Detection and Storytelling in Bleak House." Nineteenth Century Literature 50 (1995):147-67.

Tobin, Beth Fowkes. Superintending the Poor: Charitable Ladies and Paternal Landlords in British Fiction, 1770-1860. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.

Vanden Bossche, Chris. R. "Class Discourse and Popular Agency in Bleak House." Victorian Studies 47 (2004): 7-31.

Welsh, Alexander. The City of Dickens. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1971.

——. Dickens Redressed: The Art of Bleak House and Hard Times. New Haven: Yale UP, 2000.

Zwerdling, Alex. "Esther Summerson Rehabilitated." PMLA (1973): 429-39.