![]() Secondly, such repetition supplies Dickens’s well-known method of characterization, one that tends to associate characters with idiosyncratic actions and particular speech patterns. First, such repetition is part of Dickens’s endeavour to bring all characters before the reader’s eyes at regular intervals during the 19-month-long run. Mrs Bagnet’s two family dinners - pork and greens followed by beef and greens - occur two monthly numbers apart (November 1852 and January 1853). ![]() The narrative uses repetition as a structural element and as a trope in itself. Charles Dickens, however, is unusual in his elaboration of banal everydayness, and Bleak House (1852–3) is a novel with a peculiar stake in narrating what is normally invisible. Dinner, for instance, must be prepared every day yet novels, for obvious reasons, do not tend to give details of every single meal. ![]() ![]() If domestic time has a basic structure, that structure is repetition its backbone is formed out of routines. ![]()
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