Article: Janice M. Allan, ed. Charles Dickens's Bleak House: A Sourcebook.(Book review)

Janice M. Allan, ed. Charles Dickens's Bleak House: A Sourcebook. Routledge Guides to Literature. London and New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. xiv + 162. $26.95.

This rich and well-organized collection will be a great help to any reader confronting the complexities of Dickens's novel for the first time. Like other Routledge Guides, it aims to offer the basic information needed to experience Bleak House in its historical and social dimensions and as the subject of an ongoing and lively critical debate.

The carefully chosen excerpts from contemporary critics taking part in the debate invite the reader to participate as well, and offer a useful introduction ...

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