{"product_id":"supposing-bleak-house-paperback","title":"Supposing Bleak House - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn O. Jordan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eSupposing \"Bleak House\"\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJordan 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 \u003ci\u003eA Child's History of England\u003c\/i\u003e (written during the same years as his great novel) and to Jacques Derrida's \u003ci\u003eSpecters of Marx.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSupposing \"Bleak House\"\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eVictorian Literature and Culture Series\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn O. Jordan is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Director of the Dickens Project, and the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.46 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 29, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42689716912191,"sku":"9780813934440","price":56.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/96b90beef480255aa3bf07cdb7cf5a2a.webp?v=1764986457","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/supposing-bleak-house-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}