Dickens' London
Author | : Charles Dickens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : London (England) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Charles Dickens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : London (England) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Judith Flanders |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2014-07-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1466835451 |
From the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Invention of Murder, an extraordinary, revelatory portrait of everyday life on the streets of Dickens' London. The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented change, and nowhere was this more apparent than London. In only a few decades, the capital grew from a compact Regency town into a sprawling metropolis of 6.5 million inhabitants, the largest city the world had ever seen. Technology—railways, street-lighting, and sewers—transformed both the city and the experience of city-living, as London expanded in every direction. Now Judith Flanders, one of Britain's foremost social historians, explores the world portrayed so vividly in Dickens' novels, showing life on the streets of London in colorful, fascinating detail.From the moment Charles Dickens, the century's best-loved English novelist and London's greatest observer, arrived in the city in 1822, he obsessively walked its streets, recording its pleasures, curiosities and cruelties. Now, with him, Judith Flanders leads us through the markets, transport systems, sewers, rivers, slums, alleys, cemeteries, gin palaces, chop-houses and entertainment emporia of Dickens' London, to reveal the Victorian capital in all its variety, vibrancy, and squalor. From the colorful cries of street-sellers to the uncomfortable reality of travel by omnibus, to the many uses for the body parts of dead horses and the unimaginably grueling working days of hawker children, no detail is too small, or too strange. No one who reads Judith Flanders's meticulously researched, captivatingly written The Victorian City will ever view London in the same light again.
Author | : Andrea Warren |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0547395744 |
The motivations behind Dickens' novels and the poverty-stricken world of 19th century London.
Author | : Wolf Mankowitz |
Publisher | : MacMillan Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Biography of the English author who rose from extreme poverty to become one of the most popular writers of all time.
Author | : Lee Jackson |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2012-05-20 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0747812330 |
Written by the acclaimed historical novelist Lee Jackson, this book recreates the sights and sounds of Dickens' London and provides a detailed itinerary for those keen to follow in the footsteps of 'The Inimitable Boz'. Each of the eight walks conjures up forgotten scenes of London life – stage-coaches racing through the Borough; herds of cattle driven through suburban streets to reach Smithfield market; the uproar of a hanging outside Newgate Gaol – together with directions to the most atmospheric and intriguing parts of the Victorian metropolis which have survived into the twenty-first century.
Author | : Daniel Tyler |
Publisher | : Hesperus Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Literary landmarks |
ISBN | : 9781843913528 |
To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens, a generously illustrated guide to the city that was perhaps the greatest of his characters From Newgate Prison to Covent Garden and from his childhood home in Camden to his place of burial in Westminster Abbey, this guide traces the influence of the capital on the life and work of one of Britain's best-loved and well-known authors. Featuring more than 40 sites—places of worship and of business, streets and bridges—this comprehensive companion not only locates and illustrates locations from works such as Great Expectations and Little Dorrit but demonstrates how the architecture and landscape of the city influenced Dickens' work throughout his life. Each site is illustrated with substantial quotations from Dickens' own writing about the city he loved.
Author | : Alex Werner |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : London (England) |
ISBN | : 0091943736 |
Archival photographs illustrate this guide to Victorian London seen through the eyes of Charles Dickens. Setting Dickens against the city that was the backdrop and inspiration for his work, it takes the reader on a memorable and haunting journey, discovering the places and subjects which stimulated his imagination. It includes photographs of famous landmarks such as the Houses of Parliament, Trafalgar Square and Westminster Abbey, alongside coaching inns, the Thames before the Embankment was built, the construction of the Metropolitan Underground Line, the docklands that studded the river and the many villages that make up London today.
Author | : Thomas Edgar PEMBERTON |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1876 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Julian Wolfreys |
Publisher | : Edinburgh Critical Studies in |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-04-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781474402385 |
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.
Author | : Jeremy Tambling |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2018-10-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317863445 |
‘Among the numerous books on Dickens’s London, Going Astray is unique in combining detailed topography and biography with close textual analysis and theoretically informed critiques of most of the novelist’s major works. In Jeremy Tambling’s intriguing and illuminating synthesis, the London A-Z meets Nietzsche, Benjamin and Derrida.’ Rick Allen, author of The Moving Pageant: A Literary Sourcebook on London Street-Life, 1700-1914 Dickens wrote so insistently about London – its streets, its people, its unknown areas – that certain parts of the city are forever haunted by him. Going Astray: Dickens and London looks at the novelist’s delight in losing the self in the labyrinthine city and maps that interest, onto the compulsion to ‘go astray’ in writing. Drawing on all Dickens’ published writings (including the journalism but concentrating on the novels), Jeremy Tambling considers the author’s kaleidoscopic characterisations of London: as prison and as legal centre; as the heart of empire and of traumatic memory; as the place of the uncanny; as an old curiosity shop. His study examines the relations between narrative and the city, and explores how the metropolis encapsulates the problems of modernity for Dickens – as well as suggesting the limits of representation. Combining contemporary literary and cultural theory with historical maps, photographs and contextual detail, Jeremy Tambling’s book is an indispensable guide to Dickens, nineteenth- century literature, and the city itself.