Contents
- The Text of Bleak House
- Contents of Bleak House
- Preface
- A Note on the Text
- Dickens’ Working plans
- The Running Headlines
- Textual History
- Textual Notes
- The Genesis and Composition of Bleak House
- Chronology
- Dickens’ Letters on the Composition of Bleak House
- A Dictionary of Bleak House Originals: Persons and Places
- Backgrounds
- Pollution
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- Thomas Miller, A London Fog (Illustrated London News, 1849)
- Henry Mayhew, Of the Horse-Dung of the Streets of London, 1851)
- The Spa-Fields Burial Ground (The Times, 1845)
- W.H. Wills and George Hogarth, Heathen and Christian Burial, Household Words, 1850)
- R.H. Horne, [A Visit with the River-God, Father Thames] (Household Words,1851)
- Thomas Carlyle, [Typhus-Fever in Edinburgh] (from Past and Present, 1843)
- Hector Gavin, [Sanitation in a London Suburb] (from Sanitary Ramblings, 1848)
- [Report.... On Cholera] (Lancet, 1849)
- Charles Dickens, [Speech to the Metropolitan Sanitary Association] (1851)
- Government
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- Thomas Carlyle, Downing Street (Latter-Day Pamphlets, 1850)
- [On the Opening of Parliament] (Illustrated London News, 1852)
- [Speech from the Throne] (Annual Register, 1853)
- Law Courts, Inquests, and Police
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- Sutton Sharpe, [Testimony... Concerning Chancery] (1840)
- A Chancery Bone of Contention (Punch, 1852)
- [A Review of Bleak House] (Eclectic Review, 1853)
- [Cross-Examination of a Witness] (Examiner, 1850)
- Charles Dickens, [A Police-Conducted Tour of a Slum] (Household Words, 1851)
- Criticism
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- George Brimley, [A Review of Bleak House in the Spectator]
- [Anonymous Review of Bleak House in the Examiner]
- G.K. Chesterton, [Characters in Bleak House]
- George Ford, [A Note on Bleak House and Kafka]
- J. Hillis Miller, [The World of Bleak House]
- A.O.J. Cockshut, [Order and Madness in Bleak House]
- W.J. Harvey, [The Double Narrative of Bleak House]
- H.M. Daleski, [Transformation in a Sick Society]
- Ian Ousby, The Broken Glass: Vision and Comprehension in Bleak House
- Bibliography
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