“Groping in the dark”: the Representation of Poverty in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House
“Groping in the dark”: the Representation of Poverty in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House

Author(s): Agnieszka Setecka
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Charles Dickens; Bleak House; poverty; political economy; economic progress
Summary/Abstract: This article dealing with the representation of poverty in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House examines mid-Victorian approaches to the question of poverty in the light of liberal theories of political economy and economic progress. The author concludes that Dickens discerns the roots of the problem in ignorance and moral degradation and wishes to educate the poor into accepting the currently dominant system of values.

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