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Charles Dickens's Networks - Public Transport and the Novel (Paperback)
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Charles Dickens's Networks - Public Transport and the Novel (Paperback)
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The same week in February 1836 that Charles Dickens was hired to
write his first novel, The Pickwick Papers, the first railway line
in London opened. Charles Dickens's Networks explores the rise of
the global, high-speed passenger transport network in the
nineteenth century and the indelible impact it made on Dickens's
work. The advent first of stage coaches, then of railways and
transoceanic steam ships made unprecedented round-trip journeys
across once seemingly far distances seem ordinary and systematic.
Time itself was changed. The Victorians overran the separate, local
times kept in each town, establishing instead the synchronized,
'standard' time, which now ticks on our clocks. Jonathan Grossman
examines the history of public transport's systematic networking of
people and how this revolutionized perceptions of time, space, and
community, and how the art form of the novel played a special role
in synthesizing and understanding it all. Focusing on a trio of
road novels by Charles Dickens, he looks first at a key historical
moment in the networked community's coming together, then at a
subsequent recognition of its tragic limits, and, finally, at the
construction of a revised view that expressed the precarious,
limited omniscient perspective by which passengers came to imagine
their journeying in the network.
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