Charles Dickens’s Bleak House

Laura C. Berry
Summer 2014
FRIDAYS |  
9:00 a.m. until noon
May 2, 9, 16, 23, 2014
Course Format: Hybrid
Location: Main Campus
Tuition: $120.00

Bleak House is often said to be Dickens’s greatest novel; certainly it is one of his most compelling and enjoyable. We will spend four intense and rewarding weeks reading this masterpiece in its original installments, paying close attention to themes of loss, law, social class, secrecy, and inheritance. We will also explore Dickens’s astonishing use of language by way of close reading. Two critical lenses will guide us: the historical view and a psychological perspective. In addition to what I hope will be a lively discussion of the material, we will examine relevant materials from the period.

Required Reading

Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Ed. Patricia Ingham. Broadview Press, 2010. ISBN-10: 1551119315; ISBN-13: 978-1551119311.

Meet Your Instructor

Associate Professor

LAURA C. BERRY is Associate Professor of English at the University of Arizona.  She is the author of The Child, the State and the Victorian Novel, and numerous articles on Dickens, the Brontes, George Eliot, and Victorian literature and culture.  She received her doctorate from UC Berkeley in 1992.  

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