Includes bibliographical references (pages 985-986).

The text of the Bleak house -- Contents of Bleak house -- Preface -- A note on the text -- Dickens' working plans -- Running the headlines -- Textual history -- Textual notes -- The genesis and composition of Bleak house -- Chronology -- Dickens' letters on the composition of Bleak house -- A dictionary of Bleak house originals : persons and places -- Backgrounds -- A London fog (Illustrated London News, 1849) / Thomas Miller -- Of the horse-dung of the streets of London, 1851 / Henry Mayhew -- The spa-fields burial ground / The Times, 1845 -- Heathen and Christian burial (Household words, 1850) / W.H. Wills and George Hogarth -- A visit with the river-god / R.H. Horne -- Household words, 1851 / Father Thames -- Typhus-fever in Edinburg from Past and Present, 1843 / Thomas Carlyle -- Sanitation in a London Suburb from Sanitary Ramblings, 1848 / Hector Gavin -- Report ... on cholera / Lancet, 1849 -- Speech to the Metropolitan Sanitary Association, 1851 / Charles Dickens -- Downing Street (Latter-day Pamphlets, 1850) / Thomas Carlyle -- On the opening of Parliament (Illustrated London News, 1852) -- Speech from the throne / Annual Register, 1853 -- Testimony ... concerning chancery 1840 / Sutton Sharpe -- A chancery bone of contention / Punch, 1852 -- A review of Bleak House / Eclectic Review, 1853 -- Cross-examination of a witness / Examiner, 1850 -- A police-conducted tour of a slum (Household words, 1851) / Charles Dickens -- A review of Bleak house in the Spectator / George Brimley -- Anonymous review of Bleak house in The examiner -- Characters in Bleak house / G.K. Chesterton -- A note on Bleak house and Kafka / George Ford -- The world of Bleak house / J. Hillis Miller -- Order and madness in Bleak house / A.O.J. Cockshut -- The double narrative of Bleak house / W.J. Harvey -- Transformation in a sick society / H.M. Daleski -- The broken glass : vision and comprehension in Bleak house.