Introduction chapter one. Analysis of charles dickens’s bleak house

CONTENT
INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………………....3
CHAPTER ONE. ANALYSIS OF CHARLES DICKENS’S BLEAK HOUSE
1.1.Bleak House, along with Copperfield and Expectations, is one of the books most often described as Dickens’s best novel…………………………………………..5
1.2.The other metaphor that underlies the novel is disease……………………….9
CHAPTER TWO.CHARACTERS AND RELATED ENTRIES
2.1.Badger, Bayham and others………………………………………………….13
2.2.Divinities of Albion, or Galaxy Gallery of British Beauty…………………..22
CONCLUSION…………………………………………………………………..33
REFERENCES…………………………………………………………………...35

Theme:Analysis of Charles Dickens’s Bleak House
Plan:
Introduction
Chapter one. Analysis of Charles Dickens’s Bleak House
1.1.Bleak House, along with Copperfield and Expectations, is one of the books most often described as Dickens’s best novel
1.2.The other metaphor that underlies the novel is disease.
Chapter two.Characters and related entries
2.1.Badger, Bayham and others
2.2.Divinities of Albion, or Galaxy Gallery of British Beauty
Conclusion
References

INTRODUCTION
Bleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published as a 20-episode serial between March 1852 and September 1853. The novel has many characters and several sub-plots, and is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by an omniscient narrator. At the centre of Bleak House is a long-running legal case in the Court of Chancery, Jarndyce and Jarndyce, which comes about because a testator has written several conflicting wills. In a preface to the 1853 first edition, Dickens claimed there were many actual precedents for his fictional case. One such was probably the Thellusson v Woodford case in which a will read in 1797 was contested and not determined until 1859. Though many in the legal profession criticised Dickens's satire as exaggerated, this novel helped support a judicial reform movement which culminated in the enactment of legal reform in the 1870s.
There is some debate among scholars as to when Bleak House is set. The English legal historian Sir William Holdsworth sets the action in 1827; however, reference to preparation for the building of a railway in Chapter LV suggests the 1830s.
Sir Leicester Dedlock and his wife Honoria live on his estate at Chesney Wold. Lady Dedlock is a beneficiary under one of the wills. While listening to the reading by the family solicitor, Mr Tulkinghorn, of an affidavit, she recognises the handwriting on the copy. The sight affects her so much she almost faints, which Mr Tulkinghorn notices and investigates. He traces the copyist, a pauper known only as "Nemo", in London. Nemo has recently died, and the only person to identify him is a street-sweeper, a poor homeless boy named Jo, who lives in a particularly grim and poverty-stricken part of the city known as Tom-All-Alone's ("Nemo" is Latin for "nobody").