Free use and distribution is encouraged It is available as a series of MP3 files, one file per chapter. Please read the License before distributing this eBook. Conceived of as the Bildungsroman of the orphaned Esther Summerson whose ventriloquised autodiegetic story rivals and cuts across the male voice of omniscient narration, the essay argues that the novel is eventually geared to a Dickensian deusex- machina solution which, in the end, leaves persistent questions about ecology, gender, and metropolitan life vexingly unanswered. Bleak House By Charles Dickens This is a copyrighted computer-generated audio performance of Project Gutenbergs public domain book, 'Bleak House', by Charles Dickens. Drained by vampiric lawyers, struck down by contagious diseases, and often reduced to the abject state of humanoid fungi, people are bereft of their identities, lose their anthropomorphous nature, and find themselves deprived of their time-worn masks, roles, and epistemological habits. Before the backdrop of the leitmotif of the ossified lawsuit Jarndyce and Jarndyce, this chapter highlights to what extent ecological threats loom large over London that, in their poisonous effects, contaminate the old body politic.
This chapter focuses on Charles Dickens’s dark mid-Victorian novel Bleak House and reads it in terms of an elaborate response to a world that is in the firm grip of the rigorous mechanisms of industrialisation.
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