John Jordan, Supposing Bleak House

Photo credit: Carolyn Lagattuta/UC Santa Cruz

Bookshop welcomes UCSC Professor John O. Jordan for a discussion and signing of his new book, Supposing Bleak House. February 7th, 2012 marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens' birth and there are international celebrations planned throughout the month to commemorate the date. Known as one of the top Dickens’ scholars, we are fortunate to have John Jordan here to share his wealth of knowledge about Dickens.  

Jordan's Supposing Bleak House is an extended meditation on what many consider to be Dickens' and nineteenth-century England's greatest work of narrative fiction: Bleak House. Jordan offers provocative new readings of the novel's narrative structure, its illustrations, its multiple and indeterminate endings, the role of its famous detective, Inspector Bucket, its many ghosts, and its relation to key events in Dickens's life during the years 1850 to 1853. Jordan draws on insights from narratology and psychoanalysis in order to explore multiple dimensions of the protagonist’s complex subjectivity and fractured narrative voice. His conclusion considers Bleak House as a national allegory, situating it in the context of the troubled decade of the 1840s. Supposing Bleak House claims Dickens as a powerful investigator of the unconscious mind and as a "popular" novelist deeply committed to social justice and a politics of inclusiveness. Please join us in welcoming John Jordan to discuss his new title and celebrate Charles Dickens. 

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By John O. Jordan

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Supposing Bleak House (Hardcover)

By John O. Jordan

$40.95

ISBN-13: 9780813930749
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: University of Virginia Press, 2/2011

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