According to Wolfgang Iser in The Actof Reading, one’s ability to read complex literature is partly dependent onone’s knowledge of what he calls the “repertoire” of the text, “the formof references to earlier works, or to social and historical norms, or to thewhole culture from which the text has emerged” (69). With Bleak House, thisknowledge is crucial.
Idea of the repertoire is crucial, this can explain parts of why somethings are understandable and others not.