Essays about: "Bleak House"

Found 1 essay containing the words Bleak House.

  1. 1. The Non-World : Inaccessibility and Law in Charles Dickens' Bleak House

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Jonathan Foster; [2016]
    Keywords : Charles Dickens; Bleak House; non-world; Chancery; law; Pierre Bourdieu; Fredric Jameson; cognitive mapping; space; time; geocriticism; possible-worlds theory; the sublime.;

    Abstract : 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. READ MORE