Dickens and Demolition : Literary Afterlives and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Urban Development
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture
ISBN-10
1474462731
ISBN-13
9781474462730
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Imprint
Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 31st, 2020
Print length
264 Pages
Weight
422 grams
Dimensions
15.40 x 23.80 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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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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