Dickens and Demolition: Literary Afterlives and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Urban Development

ISBN-13: 9781474462730 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 264 str.

Joanna Hofer-Robinson

Opis

Dickens and Demolition examines how tropes, characters, or extracts from Dickens' fiction were repurposed as a portable terminology in arguments for large-scale demolition and redevelopment projects in London during his lifetime.

Spis treści

Abbreviations and a Note on Editions; List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1. Charles Dickens and Metropolitan Improvements; 2. Sets and the City: Staging Oliver Twist and London; 3. Dickensian Afterlives and the Demolition of Field Lane; 4. Instrumental Writing: Paperwork, Philanthropy, and Dickens’s Involvement in Urban Improvements; 5. From Sanitary Reform to Cultural Memory: The Case of Jacob’s Island; Coda; Archival Sources and a Note on Method; Select Bibliography; Notes; Index.