“He moved as if he had studied deportment with some very aged teacher, possibly with Mr. Turveydrop himself.” — Robert Bernard, Death and the Chaste Apprentice (1989)
Theme and Subject
- Legitimacy, identity, and law
- The most medical of Dickens's novels
- The Rouncewells: Old and New; or Captains of Industry and the Old Landed Gentry
Narration
- The Pitchman and the Protégée: Oral Performance Art in Bleak House
- Ugoretz on Double Narration in Bleak House
- Johnson on Narration in Bleak House
Image, Symbol, and Motif
- Symbolism in Bleak House and the novel's illustrations
- Esther's biblical allusions and their ironic undertones
- Letters as a way of understanding the city: Dickens’ Bleak House
- “A very Moloch of a baby”: Dickens’s Funny Babies and Victorian Child Care Arrangements
Setting
- Descriptions of Fog in Bleak House
- The Crossing-Sweeper Nuisance (Punch)
- The Slum of All Fears: Dickens's Concern with Urban Poverty and Sanitation
- Dickens's Description of a Graveyard
Characters and Characterization
Illustrations
- Unidentified illustrator for the Co-operative Publication Society's edition of Dicken's works [1912?]
- Forty Illustrations by Phiz plus preparatory sketchs for some and passages illustrated for all
Last modified 23 September 2021