Class Discourse and Popular Agency in "Bleak House"

Bossche places Charles Dicken's novel entitled Bleak House within the liberal political tradition that, beginning at mid-century, envisioned an English nation that was not divided by class but was unified as a single people. Among other things, he says that the novel addresses the problems of class discourse and social agency by critiquing and revising two kinds of national narrative--constitutional narratives and the national marriage plot. Accounts supporting his contention are discussed.