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Dickens’ Bleak House: The Slums of London to the Haunted Parks of Lincolnshire (LIT 191)
In March of 1852, the British public began to read Dickens’ Bleak House, poring over it as it came out in serial publication and became, as always with Dickens, one of the consuming, ongoing topics of the day. For a year and a half, until September of 1853, Bleak House was part of the everyday lives of people who lived in the richly complicated, supremely self-confident, and painstakingly reported “high Victorian” times. This course will investigate the context of this publication, as seen by the British public, as reported by the British press, and as reflected in the published works of the day, to discover what judgment Dickens is passing on his times. Maintaining our focus on Bleak House, and reading it number by number as Victorian readers did, we will consider the time’s historical and political events, literary works, architectural feats, art exhibitions, theatrical productions, scandals, technological innovations, and scientific discoveries, as well as the large and small changes in everyday life.
Linda Paulson
Associate Dean, Director of the MLA Program;, Lecturer in English
Linda Paulson received a PhD in comparative literature
from UCLA and has taught at Stanford since 1985.
Her research focuses on the Victorian social novel,
particularly on the works of Charlotte Bronte, Charles
Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Anthony Trollope; and
on the development of a British woman's novel from
Jane Austen to Doris Lessing. In 1989, she received the
Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award for Distinctive Contributions
to Undergraduate Education. From 2001 though 2007,
she directed the Discovering Dickens and Discovering
Sherlock Holmes projects. She frequently leads Stanford
Alumni Travel/Study groups through Great Britain
and France.
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Course Details
Mondays
7:00 - 8:50 pm
5 weeks
Jun 23 - Jul 21
1 unit $200
Drop by: Jul 6
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