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Article: John O. Jordan and Gordon Bigelow, eds.: Approaches to Teaching Dickens's 'Bleak House'.(Book review)
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- Dickens Quarterly
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- September 1, 2009
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John O. Jordan and Gordon Bigelow, eds. Approaches to Teaching Dickens's 'Bleak House'. New York: MLA, 2008. Pp. ix + 230. $19.75.
Who's afraid of teaching Bleak House? Many instructors, apparently, and no wonder. For an undergraduate or high school teacher to tackle a 900 + page novel that doesn't offer a complete sentence until its fourth dense paragraph and "concludes" with a closure-defying sentence fragment takes a good deal of courage. No doubt teaching Bleak House has always been daunting, but it has become particularly so as students seem increasingly averse to lengthy books, having been steeped in the abbreviated lingo of emails and text messages. But ...
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