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

Name: Dickens and Demolition
Brand: Edinburgh University Press
SKU: 9781474420983
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ISBN: 9781474420983

by Joanna Hofer-Robinson

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Format Hardback

Book Series Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture

ISBN-10 1474420982

ISBN-13 9781474420983

Publisher Edinburgh University Press

Imprint Edinburgh University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Aug 2nd, 2018

Print length 264 Pages

Weight 554 grams

Dimensions 16.20 x 24.00 x 2.20 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Urban communities / city life Urban communities

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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.

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. Commentators with public voices repeatedly mobilised a Dickensian vocabulary to communicate their opinions about how and where London''s built environment should be improved in the mid-nineteenth century, or to justify proposed alterations. In analysing allusions to Dickens in a variety of archival sources, including dramatizations, press reports, political debates, and the visual arts, this book asks what cultural work is performed by literary afterlives, and whether we can trace their material effects in the spaces we inhabit.

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