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Foor, Sheila Marie. "Dickens's \"walls of words\" in Bleak house /." The Ohio State University, 1985. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487262825078237.

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Nelms, Jeffrey Charles. "Orality, Literacy, and Character in Bleak House." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1988. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500998/.

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This work argues that the dynamics of the oral and of the literate consciousness play a vital role in the characterization of Bleak House. Through an application of Walter Ong's synthesis of orality/literacy research, Krook's residual orality is seen to play a greater role in his characterization than his more frequently discussed spontaneous combustion. Also, the role orality and literacy plays in understanding Dickens's satire of "philanthropic shams" is analyzed. This study concludes that an awareness of orality and literacy gives the reader of Bleak House a consistent framework for evaluat

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Keffeler, Kristina Lee. "Truth and Justice in The Moonstone and Bleak House." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/244411.

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Truth and justice seem to have a natural connection, especially in novels where detectives investigate the mysteries behind a crime. The plot of a detective story is based on the assumption that once the facts are discovered, the truth will come out and justice will be served. This thesis explores the interaction between truth and justice in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone and Charles Dickens’s Bleak House. While investigations may reveal the truth, this does not always lead to justice. Authors can uphold or deviate from traditional norms to reinforce or undermine the expectation that justice w

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Cash, Sarah E. "The Broken Mirror: Maternal Agency and Identity in Charles Dickens's Bleak House." FIU Digital Commons, 2013. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/828.

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This paper examined how Esther Summerson, Dickens’s ideal good mother, can be understood as a woman who has maternal agency and identity both as a character and as a narrator, and how she contrasts with other maternal characters in the novel, both major and minor. While more transgressive mothers, such as Lady Dedlock, Mrs. Jellyby and even Krook’s cat, are doomed to death, ineffectiveness and madness, Esther moves from a frozen, “unsexualized” state into a space of life and sexual possibility. In addition, Esther has agency and identity as a narrator since she shares the narration with a thir

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Foster, Jonathan. "The Non-World : Inaccessibility and Law in Charles Dickens' Bleak House." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-126573.

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The representation of Chancery court in Charles Dickens’ Bleak House (1852-3) emphasises the inaccessibility of this institution to members of the laity. Dickens’ critique of Chancery chimes with Pierre Bourdieu’s sociological description of law as a formalistic social field defined by practices of exclusion. Dickens’ Chancery is however further inaccessible since it departs from Dickens’ laypeople’s horizons of expectation as a bureaucratic organisation characterised by its structural dispersion and the generation of great quantities of writing. This thesis therefore scrutinises Dickens’ trea

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Verge, Carrie Ann. "Mr. Dickens's Book of Household Management:(Re)-Reading Bleak House as Domestic Literature." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1540210132173239.

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Barker, Daniel K. "A justification of the narrative presence of Esther Summerson in Charles Dickens's Bleak house /." Electronic version (PDF), 2004. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2004/barkerd/danielbarker.html.

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Fayemi-Wiesebron, Anne-Gaëlle Adetôla. "L'objet dickensien, entre profusion et vide : étude de l'objet dans David Copperfield, Bleak House et Great Expectations." Phd thesis, Université Rennes 2, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00753707.

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Pris dans les rouages de la révolution industrielle, l'objet dickensien est synonyme d'abondance. Cette profusion d'objets - qu'ils soient concrets ou diégétiques - permet au texte ses plus beaux excès et se prête à merveille au jeu de la collection et des listes, chères à Dickens. Les objets brillent de possibilités inouïes, bousculent l'ordre préétabli et en viennent à supplanter les personnages, souvent relégués au second plan. Le récit, réaliste, est incrusté de surnaturel et fait aussi bien allégeance à l'excès qu'à l'ordre qui en découlera. Les deux extrêmes oeuvrent donc à la réconcilia

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Fayemi-Wiesebron, Anne-Gaëlle. "L'objet dickensien, entre profusion et vide : étude de l'objet dans David Copperfield, Bleak House et Great Expectations." Thesis, Rennes 2, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012REN20039/document.

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Pris dans les rouages de la révolution industrielle, l'objet dickensien est synonyme d'abondance. Cette profusion d'objets – qu'ils soient concrets ou diégétiques – permet au texte ses plus beaux excès et se prête à merveille au jeu de la collection et des listes, chères à Dickens. Les objets brillent de possibilités inouïes, bousculent l'ordre préétabli et en viennent à supplanter les personnages, souvent relégués au second plan. Le récit, réaliste, est incrusté de surnaturel et fait aussi bien allégeance à l'excès qu'à l'ordre qui en découlera. Les deux extrêmes oeuvrent donc à la réconcilia

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Adams, Aaron. "Victorian representations and transformations : sacred place in Charles Dickens's Bleak House and Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2010. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/2397/.

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Victorian literary criticism has within it a longstanding tradition of inquiring about the degree to which literature of the period reflects the realities of nineteenthcentury Christian faith. Many of these studies are admirable in the way that they demonstrate the challenges confronting religion in this period of dynamic social, cultural, economic, political, and scientific change and growth. Similarly, this study will examine the critical intersections between nineteenth-century Christianity and literature. However, this project is unique by virtue of the methodology used in order to access

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Seman, Taylor J. "Dickens against the Grain: Gendered Spheres and Their Transgressors in Bleak House, Hard Times, and Great Expectations." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1307384151.

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Takai, Yuriko. "Formations of social concern in three novels of Dickens : a critical reading of Oliver Twist, Bleak House, and Little Dorrit." Thesis, University of Essex, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.277697.

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Swifte, Yasmine Gai. "Charles Dickens and the Role of Legal Institutions in Social and Moral Reform: Oliver Twist, Bleak House, and Our Mutual Friend." University of Sydney, English, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/409.

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The legal system of Victorian England is integral to Charles Dickens' novels and to their moral intent. Dickens was acutely conscious of the way in which the Victorian novel operated as a form of moral art. As a novelist he is concerned about the victims of his society and the way in which their lots can be improved. He therefore chooses to construct representative victims of legal institutions such as the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 and the Court of Chancery in his novels to highlight flaws in his world and the changes that might be made to improve social conditions. This thesis w

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Welch, Brenda Jean Losey Jay Brian. "Charles Dickens's Bleak house Benthamite jurisprudence and the law, or what the law is and what the law ought to be /." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5158.

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Swifte, Yasmin. "Charles Dickens and the role of legal institutions in moral and social reform Oliver Twist, Bleak House, and Our mutual friend /." Connect to full text, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/409.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Sydney, 2000.<br>Title from title screen (viewed Apr. 21, 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts to the Dept. of English, Faculty of Arts. Degree awarded 2000; thesis submitted 1999. Includes bibliography. Also available in print form.

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Jäckle, Maja [Verfasser], Doris [Akademischer Betreuer] Feldmann, Doris [Gutachter] Feldmann, and Simone [Gutachter] Broders. "Material Culture and Identity in the Mid-Victorian Novel: Mayhew's 1851, Dickens's Bleak House and Gaskell's Cranford / Maja Jäckle ; Gutachter: Doris Feldmann, Simone Broders ; Betreuer: Doris Feldmann." Erlangen : Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), 2020. http://d-nb.info/1211179125/34.

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Moon, Sangwha. "Dickens in the Context of Victorian Culture: an Interpretation of Three of Dickens's Novels from the Viewpoint of Darwinian Nature." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1996. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279322/.

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The worlds of Dickens's novels and of Darwin's science reveal striking similarity in spite of their involvement in different areas. The similarity comes from the fact that they shared the ethos of Victorian society: laissez-faire capitalism. In The Origin of Species, which was published on 1859, Charles Darwin theorizes that nature has evolved through the rules of natural selection, survival of the fittest, and the struggle for existence. Although his conclusion comes from the scientific evidence that was acquired from his five-year voyage, it is clear that Dawinian nature is reflected in crue

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Kichner, Heather J. "Cemetery Plots from Victoria to Verdun: Literary Representations of Epitaph and Burial from the Nineteenth Century through the Great War." online version, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=case1212645077.

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Bentley, Colene. "Constituting political interest : community, citizenship, and the British novel, 1832-1867." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=36875.

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This dissertation asserts a strong connection between democratic culture and the novel form in the period 1832--1867. As England debated constitutional reform and the extension of the franchise, novelists Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot endeavoured to define human communities on democratic terms. Drawing on work of contemporary political philosopher John Rawls to develop a methodology that considers constitutions and novelistic representations as analogous contexts for reasoning about shared political values and citizenship, this study provides readings of Bleak House, Nor

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Fernandes, Nikki D. "Relocations of the 'Outraged Slave': Transatlantic Reform Conversations through Douglass's Periodical Fiction." VCU Scholars Compass, 2017. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4825.

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Through their editorial arrangements of African-American, Euro-American and European poetry, fiction and news, Frederick Douglass’s anti-slavery periodicals (The North Star and Frederick Douglass’ Paper) imagine a cosmopolitan discourse that predates the segregated realities of the antebellum United States. In spite of Southern blockades against the infiltration of Northern texts, Douglass’s material space uniquely capitalized on the limited restrictions of his reprinting culture to relocate the voice of the ‘outraged slave’ onto a global stage. From the poems of Phillis Wheatley and William C

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Robles, Fanny. "Émergence littéraire et visuelle du muséum humain : les spectacles ethnologiques à Londres, 1853-1859." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014TOU20038.

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Les spectacles ethnologiques victoriens mettent en scène des milliers de colonisés dans des zoos, cabarets, appartements privés et institutions scientifiques. Cette thèse se penche sur deux spectacles sud-Africains en particulier : les « Zulu Kafirs » et les « Earthmen », montés à Londres dans les années 1850. Prenant pour point de départ « The Noble Savage » de Charles Dickens, écrit après qu’il a vu les « Zulus », ce travail porte sur le fantasme victorien d’un « muséum humain ». Après une étude des concepts de « race » et de « sauvagerie » aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles, nous abordons l’évoluti

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Šumberová, Petra. "Ocenění výše škody způsobené zásahem blesku do rodinného domu v obci Šebetov." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Ústav soudního inženýrství, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-233121.

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The aim of this diploma thesis is to determine the amount of indemnity for damage caused by a lightning strike to a house in the village Šebetov. The thesis is dividend into theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part deals with the basic concepts, associated with the topic. Furthermore, the approach of valuation of assets and insurance. The practical part uses theoretical knowledge addresses a specific case. First, the location is described, house and insured event (natural event – flash). Following the calculation of the time value immediately before the insured event, further costs

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Woods, Gina Susanne. "Narrating uncertainty in Bleak House and Emma." 2003. http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga%5Fetd/woods%5Fgina%5Fs%5F200305%5Fma.

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Cameron, Susan Patricia. "Representations of loss in Charles Dickens's Bleak house." Diss., 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/989.

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The nineteenth century was a time of rapid change, brought about by increasing industrial development and changing patterns of thought and belief. Dickens's attitude to industrialism was ambivalent. He was not averse to progress, but feared that the ills of society would remain overshadowed. This dissertation explores representations of loss in Bleak House and examines some of the challenges the subject presents. The first chapter concentrates on examples of the wide range of losses with which Dickens deals in the novel to create the cumulative impression of individuals and a nation exis

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Kao, Li-chen, and 高麗真. "The Trilogy of Esther's Self-growth in Dickens's Bleak House." Thesis, 2001. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/13006079697777118853.

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碩士<br>國立成功大學<br>外國語文學系<br>89<br>In Dickens's time, around his writing of Bleak House, the labouring population and the working class are suffering from starvation and disease. The bourgeois take control of the social substance and the disadvantage falls upon the poor. The distinction between social classes protects the upper and middle classes. Hence, they can fight for their benefit, but the low class has no opportunity to rise. One way for the low class to get rid of their predetermined fate is to marry to people in the upper class. Due to such a social background, the romances between

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Van, Ras Tamara L. "Women's voices : the emergence of female identity in Bleak House and Little Dorrit." Thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/35566.

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Dedicated to recording, portraying, and indicting the social inequities that he witnessed in nineteenth century Victorian England, one of Charles Dickens' many concerns was the roles assigned to women both in the public and private spheres. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the narratives of Amy Dorrit and Miss Wade in Dickens' Little Dorrit and Esther Summerson in Bleak House to explore the ways in which each woman conforms to, subverts, or rejects her socially prescribed roles as she seeks to create her own identity while simultaneously complying to the duties and roles assigned her.

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LeGette, Casie. ""Not quite a human mother" tracing maternity in Bleak House and Daniel Deronda /." 2004. http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga%5Fetd/legette%5Fcasie%5Fr%5F200405%5Fma.

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Satre, Kay A. "Composing the family: A reading of "Bleak House", "Wives and Daughters", and "Daniel Deronda"." 1998. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9920648.

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Drawing upon historical studies of the family and feminist studies of discourse and culture, this dissertation explores representations of the family in Charles Dickens's Bleak House, Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters, and George Eliot's Daniel Deronda. It situates each novel's representation of the family within a central ideological undertaking in Victorian culture—the attempt to confirm individual autonomy without sacrificing collective responsibility. It claims that a new family paradigm, the affective family ideal, gains cultural currency because it appears to reconcile these compet

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Williams, Emily. ""For the Sake of the Rest": Education and Mutual Responsibility in Charles Dickens's 'Bleak House' and 'Little Dorrit'." 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10222/15342.

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This thesis examines how Dickens positions education between self-help and philanthropy in "Bleak House" and "Little Dorrit." The first chapter examines Dickens’s own education as well as his education-related charitable activities to provide context for the following analysis of "Bleak House" and "Little Dorrit." The second chapter focuses on education in "Bleak House" as a locus both for Dickens’s critique of the government’s irresponsible failure to educate the poor and for Dickens’s depiction of social responsibility motivating individuals to teach others. Finally, the third chapter consid

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Smith, Melissa Ann master of arts in English. "When fairy godmothers are men : Dickens's gendered use of fairy tales as a form of narrative control in Bleak House." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-3152.

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This paper explores how Charles Dickens’s use of a female narrator in Bleak House (1853) fundamentally problematizes and undermines his use of the fairy tale’s cultural cachet, motifs, and characters to prop up and project his fantasies of the feminine ideal. More specifically, it examines the effects of the thematic presence of several tale-types and stock fairy tale figures on Dickens’s ability to prescribe ideal feminine behaviors, such as incuriosity and selfless obedience, to both his characters and his female audience. Because Esther’s ability to write and her interest in either discover

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Glover, Graham. "Maybe the courts are not such a Bleak House after all - or please sir, I want some more copyright." 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/70841.

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In our advanced technological age the law of copyright faces tremendous challenges. In particular, the Internet has created serious problems for those who wish to enforce their proprietary rights, and to protect their textual (and other) creations from unregulated and uninhibited reproduction.

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Mead, Christopher. ""A case of mysterious death" : materialism and professionalism in Bleak House and Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/20890.

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Devilliers, Ingrid. "Victorian commodities : reading serial novels alongside their advertising supplements." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-08-1653.

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Victorian serial novels were bound with pages upon pages of advertisements marketing goods to readers, yet the relative inattention paid to this significant material component of the novel is surprising. This project explores the interaction between fictional narrative and commercial advertisements, and aims to recover the material context in which three Victorian novels—Bleak House, Middlemarch, and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—were first published and read. These three case studies—a novel published in 20 monthly serial numbers, another packaged in the rare format of eight “books” in bim

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Campbell, Jane. "Dickens' angels : ambivalence and ambiguity in Dickens' portrayal of feminine virtue." Phd thesis, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/145132.

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