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The Shop in Dickens’s Fiction
Published 2016-06-01Subjects: “…Charles Dickens…”
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“Charles Dickens walked past here”: Dickensian Topography and the Idea of Fellowship
Published 2016-05-01“…The essay explores the idea of Dickensian topography, in relation both to Dickens’s own preoccupation with topographical specificity in the novels and to the practices of literary tourism in “Dickens Country.” …”
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The Roaring Streets: Dickensian London in the Pages of Virginia Woolf
Published 2021-01-01Subjects: “…Dickens (Charles)…”
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Dickens in Arabia: Going Astray in Tripoli
Published 2016-06-01“…Can one walk in a foreign city and experience it through the textual lens of Dickens’s urban sensibility? Did Dickens see poverty like Tripoli’s in London in the mid-nineteenth century? …”
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Snow and Dickens: The Victorian ‘Inconvenient Truth’
Published 2012-01-01“…In Victorian London, Snow challenged the deeply held theory that miasmas caused diseases such as cholera. …”
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“Walls of Words”: Paperscape in Charles Dickens’s Novels
Published 2016-06-01“…This writing transforms London into a gigantic map on which the characters move. …”
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The French Actor on the London Stage: Charles Fechter
Published 2017-11-01“…Charles Fechter (1824-1879) was known by many of his mid-century admirers as the best lover on the London stage. According to the majority of his biographers the actor was London-born, but of French extraction and raised for the most part in France. …”
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« A Flight », de Charles Dickens (1851), récit de voyage ?
Published 2012-06-01“…This paper is centred on « A Flight », an article published by Dickens in Household Words in 1851, the narrative of a train journey from London to Paris. …”
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London’s Great Starfish: The Construction of Mid-Victorian Suburban Fiction
Published 2009-04-01“…In Trollope's 1858 The Three Clerks, the coming of commuter railways generates a peculiarly modern image of suburbanised, starfish-like, London: ‘London will soon assume the shape of a great starfish. . . . .The old town, extending from Poplar to Hammersmith, will be the nucleus, and the various railway lines will be the projecting rays.’ …”
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Normative Ideology, Transgressive Aesthetics: Depicting and Exploring the Urban Underworld in Oliver Twist (1838), Twist (2003) and Boy Called Twist (2004)
Published 2014-06-01“…In his preface to Oliver Twist, Dickens insists that his depiction of the London underworld is deprived of ‘allurements and fascinations’, and states his didactic ambition to offer a realistic description of this grim universe. …”
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La représentation paradoxale du chemin de fer chez Dickens : fantastique et mythe au service d’une peinture de la modernité dans Dombey and Son (1848) et « No. 1 Branch Line. The S...
Published 2010-06-01“…With George Cruikshank’s famous engraving London Going out of Town. The March of Bricks and Mortar (1829), that gives a nightmare, fantastic image of the ravages of urbanization, we can notice the innovative resort to the Gothic to deal with modern phenomena, something as yet unprecedented in the arts, and a device that will also be used by Dickens in the 1850s and 60s to evoke the railway. …”
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Sydney Carton’s Other Doubles
Published 2012-01-01“…Utilizing close examination of the revisions in Dickens’s remarkable manuscript of the novel (now in the Forster Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London), I consider several other figures that double Carton: Mr. …”
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Smoke or no Smoke? Questions of Perspective in North and South
Published 2010-06-01“…For all its smoke and grime, the bustling factory town compares not unfavourably with the backwardness of rural England, the idle drawing-room life of London or torpid Oxford academia. Individual responses to the environment, especially air quality, are shown to be subjective and Milton’s noxious air is consistently presented as perceived unpleasantness. …”
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