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Dickensland - The Curious History of Dickens's London
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Dickensland - The Curious History of Dickens's London
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List price R665
Loot Price R532
Discovery Miles 5 320
You Save R133 (20%)
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The intriguing history of Dickens’s London, showing how tourists
have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more
than 150 years  Tourists have sought out the landmarks,
streets, and alleys of Charles Dickens’s London ever since the
death of the world-renowned author. Late Victorians and Edwardians
were obsessed with tracking down the locations—dubbed
“Dickensland”—that famously featured in his novels. But his
fans were faced with a city that was undergoing rapid
redevelopment, where literary shrines were far from sacred. Over
the following century, sites connected with Dickens were
demolished, relocated, and reimagined. Â Lee Jackson traces
the fascinating history of Dickensian tourism, exploring both real
Victorian London and a fictional city shaped by fandom, tourism,
and heritage entrepreneurs. Beginning with the late nineteenth
century, Jackson investigates key sites of literary pilgrimage and
their relationship with Dickens and his work, revealing hidden,
reinvented, and even faked locations. From vanishing coaching inns
to submerged riverside stairs, hidden burial grounds to apocryphal
shops, Dickensland charts the curious history of an imaginary
world.
General
Imprint: |
Yale University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2023 |
Authors: |
Lee Jackson
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Dimensions: |
235 x 156mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
288 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-300-26620-7 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-300-26620-0 |
Barcode: |
9780300266207 |
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