ISBN:
9780748656035
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9780748656059
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9780748656042
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9781474429795
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xx, 251 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Edinburgh critical studies in victorian culture
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Dickens's London
Keywords:
Dickens, Charles 1812-1870 Knowledge
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England
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London
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London (England) History
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19th century
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Dickens, Charles 1812-1870
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London
;
London
Abstract:
Cover -- Copyright; Contents -- List of Illustrations and Maps; Series Editor's Preface -- Abbreviations -- Advertisement -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Dickens's London -- Arrivals (and Returns) -- Banking and Breakfast Gray's Inn Square, Temple Bar, Strand Lane -- Chambers Holborn, Staple Inn, Furnival's Inn -- Dismal Little Britain, Smithfield, Saint Paul's Cathedral -- Exteriors Golden Square, Portland Place, Bryanstone Square -- Faded Gentility Camden Town. -- Gothic Seven Dials, Walworth, Covent Garden, India House, Aldgate Pump, Whitechapel Church, Commercial Road, Wapping Old Stairs, St George's in the East, Snow Hill, NewgateHeart St Paul's Cathedral -- Insolvent Court Portugal Street, Lincoln's Inn, Houndsditch, Tyburn, Whitechapel, St George's Fields, Southwark -- Jaggers's House Gerrard Street, Soho -- Krook's by Lincoln's Inn -- Life and Death Snow Hill, the Saracen's Head, Smithfield, Saint James's Parish, Saint Sepulchre's Church -- Melancholy Leadenhall Street, Newgate, Lant Street, Borough, St George the Martyr -- Nocturnal Millbank. -- Obstructive Tower Street WardPoverty Angel, Islington, St John's Road, Sadler's Wells Theatre, Exmouth Street, Coppice Row, Hockley-in-the-Hole, Saffron Hill, Field Lane -- Quiet Soho Square, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Old Square -- Resignation Todgers's, somewhere adjacent to the Monument -- Spring Evenings London -- Time The City, Coram's Fields -- Unfi nished Stagg's Gardens, Camden Town -- Voice Brentford, the Borough -- Walking St Martin's Court, Covent Garden -- X Marks the Spot St Mary Axe -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Proper Names
Abstract:
Taking Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project as an inspiration, Dickens's London offers an exciting and original project that opens a dialogue between phenomenology, philosophy and the Dickensian representation of the city in all its forms. Julian Wolfreys suggests that in their representations of London - its streets, buildings, public institutions, domestic residences, rooms and phenomena that constitute such space - Dickens's novels and journalism can be seen as forerunners of urban and material phenomenology. While also addressing those aspects of the urban that are developed from Dickens's interpretations of other literary forms, styles and genres, Dickens's London presents in twenty-six episodes (from Banking and Breakfast via the Insolvent Court, Melancholy and Poverty, to Todgers and Time, Voice and Waking) a radical reorientation to London in the nineteenth century, the development of Dickens as a writer, and the ways in which readers today receive and perceive both.
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