Dickens's London

Perception, Subjectivity and Phenomenal Urban Multiplicity

AvJulian Wolfreys,University of Portsmouth) Wolfreys, Julian (Professor of English Literature, Director, Centre for Studies in Literature, School of Sociological, Historical, and Literary Studies

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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This exploration of the streets of Dickens's London opens up new perspectives on the city and the writerTaking 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.Key FeaturesMajor reassessment of Dickens's writing on the city Dual focus on methodology and the historicity of Dickensian urban consciousnessPhilosophical reflections on urban tropologies through key passages from Dickens's texts recreate the experience of Victorian London Inventive structure offers the reader an experience of the disordered multiplicity of LondonIllustrated with 19 maps and photographs

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Utgivningsdatum:2015-04-19
Mått:156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt:412 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474402385

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Julian Wolfeys is Professor of English Literature at the University of Portsmouth, where he is also Director of the Centre for Studies in Literature. He is author and editor of more than 40 books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century English literature and literary theory. Most recently he has published Dickens’s London and The Derrida Wordbook, both with Edinburgh University Press. He recently published his first novel, Silent Music.

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...a complex and intellectually stimulating exploration of London as a fictional topography that doubles as a stage and features a wide range of characters including lawyers, criminals and the homeless.

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Series Editor's Preface; Abbreviations; An Advertisement; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations and Maps; Preface; Dickens' London; Dickens, our Contemporary; Alternative Contents; Enargia; A - Arrivals (& Returns): London, Whitechapel, Blackheath, Blackfriars, Windsor Terrace, City Road, The Strand, Drury Lane, Fleet Street, Buckingham Street, the Adelphi, Custom House [Lower Thames Street], the Monument, Fish-Street Hill, Saint Paul's Cathedral; B - Breakfast: Gray's Inn Square, Temple Bar, Strand Lane; C - Chambers: Holborn, Staple Inn, Furnival's Inn; D - Dismal: Little Britain, Smithfields, Saint Paul's Cathedral; E - Exteriors: Golden Square, Portland Place, Bryanston Square; F - Faded gentility: Camden Town; G - 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, Newgate; H - Heart: St Paul's Cathedral; I - Insolvent Court: Portugal Street, Lincoln's Inn, Houndsditch, Tyburn, Whitechapel, St, George's Fields; J - Jaggers' House: Gerrard Street, Soho; K - Krook's: by Lincoln's Inn; L - Life and Death: Snow Hill The Saracen's Head, Smithfield, Saint James's Parish, Saint Sepulchre's Church; M - Melancholy: Leadenhall Street; N - Nocturnal: Millbank; O - Obstructive: Tower Street Ward; P - Poverty: Angel, Islington, St John's Road, Sadler's Wells Theatre, Exmouth Street, Coppice Row, Hockley-in-the-Hole, Saffron Hill, Field Lane; Q - Quiet: Soho Square, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Old Square, Lincoln's Inn; R - Resignation: Todgers, The Monument; S - Spring Evenings: London; T - Time: The City, Coram's Fields; U - Unfinished: Stagg's Gardens, Camden Town; V - Voice: Brentford, the Borough; W - Walking: St Martin's Court, Covent Garden; X - X marks the Spot: St Mary Axe; Notes ; Bibliography; Index

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