‘For God’s Sake Look at This!’: Physiognomy in Bleak House by Michael Hollington

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Brumes et brouillards de Bleak House à Heart of Darkness by Audrey Sabathier-Lepetre

“…This article analyses the ways in which air is combined to water to generate mist or fog in three novels of the Victorian period (Bleak House, Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Heart of Darkness). …”
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‘For he has his pictures, ancient and modern’: Likenesses in Bleak House by Laurent Bury

“…The problem of physical and moral resemblance, the relation between original and copy, between a model and its representation, all those questions are relevant to Bleak House. This paper studies the notion of likeness in relation to the illustrations of the novel, not only Phiz’s original drawings for the first edition, but also Mervyn Peake’s abortive attempt at re-illustrating Bleak House in 1945. …”
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Dickens : entre système organique et hémorragie textuelle by Nathalie Jaëck

“…The text leaves way to its own contradiction, it undoes and destabilises its own paradigms, and questions its own realist literary stance, through strategies of interruption, digressions and diversions, until the dissident text actually competes with the official one, notably in Great Expectations and Bleak House.…”
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The Shop in Dickens’s Fiction by Maria Teresa CHIALANT

“…All Dickens readers can easily agree that the presence of shops in his work is very striking, ranging from four “Scenes” in Sketches by Boz to better known examples like the eponymous place in The Old Curiosity Shop, Sol Gills’s store of nautical instruments in Dombey and Son, Krook’s warehouse in Bleak House and Mr. Venus’s laboratory in Our Mutual Friend to Household Words. …”
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Artists’ books et nursery porn : Ré-illustrer les Victoriens by Laurent Bury

“…Homotextuality appears when an illustration sends the reader back to a previous, supposedly well-known illustration, rather than to the text it accompanies: when Edward Gorey re-illustrated Bleak House in 1953, his drawings explicitly referred to Phiz’ work for the original edition, one century before. …”
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“Walls of Words”: Paperscape in Charles Dickens’s Novels by Céline PREST

“…Our corpus will consist of a selection of novels—Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Little Dorrit and Our Mutual Friend—and five essays with “Bill-Sticking,” “Our Watering Place,” “Out of Town,” “Travelling Abroad” and “Some Recollections of Mortality,” in an effort to show the author’s concern for the materiality of the written sign from the very beginning of his career until the very end.…”
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