{"product_id":"supposing-bleak-house-9780813934440","title":"Supposing Bleak House","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-174610\"\u003eJohn O. Jordan\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/29\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.67lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813934440\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813934443\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LIT\"\u003eLiterary Criticism\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LIT004120\"\u003eEnglish, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Virginia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44581128470765,"sku":"9780813934440","price":43.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_bb6be131-af95-46b7-90b5-f74f9592b48c.jpg?v=1702083831","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/es\/products\/supposing-bleak-house-9780813934440","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}