<P>With its sustained social criticism and complex construction, Charles Dickens''s <EM>Bleak House</EM> (1853) is considered by many critics to be Dickens''s most remarkable novel. Janice Allan:</P><UL><LI>introduces the contextual issues that most directly influenced Dickens''s writing and reprints relevant source documents</LI><LI>provides a comprehensive survey of the criticism of <EM>Bleak House</EM> from publication to the present, then introduces, reprints and annotates extracts from significant critical texts</LI><LI>discusses key passages of the text, which are reprinted and fully annotated for ease of use</LI><LI>includes cross-references throughout, making illuminating connections between the text, contexts and interpretations of the novel</LI><LI>concludes the volume with suggestions to further reading, enabling additional focused study</LI></UL><P>Both accessible and informative, Janice Allan provides an invaluable guide to one of the nineteenth century''s most important a