Dickens, Reynolds, and Mayhew on Wellington Street: The Print Culture of a Victorian Street

ISBN-13: 9780367880309 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 278 str.

Mary L. Shannon

Opis

Between 1843 and 1853, Household Words, Reynolds’s Weekly Newspaper, the Examiner, Punch, and the serial edition of London Labour and the London Poor were all published from Wellington Street off the Strand, which housed the offices of Charles Dickens, G.W.M. Reynolds and Henry Mayhew. Shannon examines the implications of their close proximity for

Spis treści

Morning: 'the smallness of the world'.  Afternoon: 'dissolute and idle persons'.  Evening: 'the showman introduces himself'.  Night: 'the compass of the world and they that dwell therein'.  Conclusion: 'very curiously brought together' by Bleak House.

O autorze

Mary L. Shannon received her BA from the University of Cambridge and her PhD from King’s College London. She is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Roehampton, London. She works on early nineteenth-century print culture and visual culture, with particular interests in literary networks, cultural geography, periodicals, and literature about London.