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'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...

Focusing on the language, style, and poetry of Dickens' novels, this study breaks new ground in reading Dickens' novels as a unique form of poetry. Dickens' writing disallows the statement of single unambiguous truths and shows unconscious processes burrowing within language, disrupting received ideas and modes of living. Arguing that Dickens, within nineteenth-century modernity, sees language as always double, Tambling draws on a wide range of Victorian texts and current critical theory to explore Dickens' interest in literature and popular song, and what happens in jokes, in caricature,...

Indispensable to an understanding of Medieval and Renaissance texts and a topic of controversy for the Romantic poets, allegory remains a site for debate and controversy in the twenty-first-century.

In this useful guide, Jeremy Tambling:

• presents a concise history of allegory, providing numerous examples from Medieval forms to the present day
• considers the relationship between allegory and symbolism
• analyses the use of allegory in modernist debate and deconstruction, looking at critics such as Walter Benjamin and Paul de Man...

'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...