Essays
Dickens and the City
2012·592 pages
Scholarly anthology of essays on Dickens and urban life, especially London, covering class, modernity, and city culture.
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Scholarly anthology of essays on Dickens and urban life, especially London, covering class, modernity, and city culture.
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Dickens's relationship to cities is part of his modernity and his enduring fascination. How he thought about, grasped and conceptualised the rapidly expanding and anonymous urban scene are all fascinating aspects of a critical debate which, starting virtually from Dickens's own time, has become more and more active and questioning of the significance of that new thing, the unknown and unknowable, city. Although Dickens was influenced by several European and American cities, the most significant ...
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Sexual content
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Violence & gore
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Critical discussion of crime and peril in Dickens's urban plots
Profanity
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Passing critical references possible in Victorian context
Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic present
Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Marxist and sociological essays on class, capital, and urban modernity
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Recurring critical focus on slums, poverty, and social suffering
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