Analysis of the Law Embodied in Charles Dickens’ Bleak House

Abstract

As two independent disciplines, law and literature are possible and feasible to be integrated. The perspective of law and literature is pioneering for expanding the research boundary through an interdisciplinary approach. A task of studying the law and literature is to comprehensively use the methodology of social science to reflect on and dig out the legal problems hidden in literary works that can be connected with reality. By analyzing the legal elements and legal concepts embodied in Bleak House written by Charles Dickens, this paper attempts to interpret the novel plot from the legal perspective and study their mutually beneficial relationship and two-way influence, so as to reflect on the inspiration that law-related literature can draw from in the future and the experience that legal research can learn from.