Charles Dickens's London [Lingua Inglese] - Rilegato

Sanders, Andrew

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ISBN 10: 0709088310 ISBN 13: 9780709088318

Casa editrice: Robert Hale Ltd, 2010

Riassunto

A renowned Dickens scholar explores in depth what survives of Dickens's city, including detailed itineraries and unpublished photographs of Victorian London, and covering both "legal London" and the criminal underworld

 

No novelist is as intimately connected to a great city as Dickens is to London. The vibrancy and variety of the city determined the shape and character of Dickens's work and he, in turn, recreated London in his fiction. Andrew Sanders retraces Dickens's footsteps through the streets, alleys, highways, and byways of the city, exploring the physical nature and architecture of Victorian London. He follows Dickens and his characters from the slums to the city, from the mansions of Mayfair to the respectable inner suburbs of Islington and Bloomsbury. He journeys from the untidiness of Walworth and Camden Town to the villas of Twickenham and Hampstead and semi-rural retreats of Dulwich, Finchley, and Highgate. Although vastly changed with time, the London that Dickens created is still vividly present in his writing. The first and greatest of urban novelists, Dickens captures the essence of the central modern social phenomenon—the excitements and problems of the city.

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L'autore:

Andrew Sanders has written four substantial studies of Dickens and his novels, is the author of The Short Oxford History of English Literature, and has edited and annotated editions of Bleak House, David Copperfield, Dombey and Son, and A Tale of Two Cities. He is former president of the Dickens Fellowship and a trustee of the Charles Dickens Museum. He lives in London.

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• Editore: Robert Hale Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0709088310
• ISBN 13: 9780709088318
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 240