The Companion to 'Bleak House' av Susan Shatto

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<P>This book, first published in 1988, is the most comprehensive annotation of <I>Bleak House</I> ever undertaken. It provides authoritative background information about the topical issues of the novel that interested Dickens as a social critic and activist. It also describes the novel¿s literary antecedents and identifies the sources of its hundreds of literary and historical allusions. The annotation is based on a wide range of nineteenth-century sources ¿ from newspapers, periodicals and parliamentary papers to travel guides and cookery books ¿ and gives the modern reader unprecedented access to both <I>Bleak House</I> ¿ Dickens¿s tract for the times ¿ and the period when it was written.</P>