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Dickens and the City (Paperback)
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Dickens and the City (Paperback)
Series: A Library of Essays on Charles Dickens
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Dickens's relationship to cities is part of his modernity and his
enduring fascination. How he thought about, grasped and
conceptualised the rapidly expanding and anonymous urban scene are
all fascinating aspects of a critical debate which, starting
virtually from Dickens's own time, has become more and more active
and questioning of the significance of that new thing, the unknown
and unknowable, city. Although Dickens was influenced by several
European and American cities, the most significant city for Dickens
was London, the city he knew as a boy in the 1820s and which
developed in his lifetime to become the finance and imperial
capital of the nineteenth-century. His sense of London as
monumental and fashionable, modern and anachronistic, has generated
a large number of writings and critical approaches: Marxist,
sociological, psychoanalytic and deconstructive. Dickens looks at
the city from several aspects: as a place bringing together poverty
and riches; as the place of the new and of chance and coincidence,
and of secret lives exposed by the special figure of the detective.
Another crucial area of study is the relationship of the city to
women, and women's place in the city, as well as the way Dickens's
London matches up with other visual representations. This anthology
of criticism surveys the field and is a major contribution to the
study of cities, city culture, modernity and Dickens. It brings
together key previously published articles and essays and features
a comprehensive bibliography of work which scholars can continue to
explore.
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