Dickens and the Unreal City

1. Introduction: ‘A heap of broken images’
Karl Ashley Smith

2. ‘A revelation by which men are to guide themselves’: Dickens and Christian Theology
Karl Ashley Smith

3. ‘The debilitated old house in the city’: London as Haunted House
Karl Ashley Smith

4. ‘A great (and dirty) city’: London’s Dirt and the Terrors of Obscurity
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5. ‘Angel and devil by turns’: The Detective Figure in Bleak House
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6. ‘A road of ashes’: London’s Railway and the Providential Timetable
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7. ‘The secrets of the river’: The Thames within London
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8. ‘A dream of demon heads and savage eyes’: Dickens’s Metropolitan Crowd
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9. Conclusion: ‘What is the city over the mountains’
Karl Ashley Smith

Keywords: Literature, Fiction, History of Britain and Ireland, Modern History, Nineteenth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature