Scholarly criticism reading Dickens’s novels as studies of London, blending topography, theory, maps, and close textual analysis.
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Scholarly criticism reading Dickens’s novels as studies of London, blending topography, theory, maps, and close textual analysis.
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London streets, its people, its crowds, its buildings. It is Dickens's constant subject, from his early journalism, Sketches by Boz , to The Uncommercial Traveller , from his first novel, Pickwick Papers , to the unfinished The Mystery of Edwin Drood . Going Astray: Dickens and London is a major new work of criticism that attempts a reading of Dickens's novels in the light of the study of London. Its guiding premise is that Dickens's novels not only use London as a background, but that they are ...
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will contain mild spoilers
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No romantic or sexual content present
Violence & gore
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Discusses crime, prisons, and urban peril in Dickens’s London
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Passing Victorian religious and moral contexts in Dickens analysis
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Recurring themes of empire, modernity, and urban culture via theory
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Abuse & suffering
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Recurring discussion of prisons, poverty, and traumatic memory
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