Smith, Karl Ashley
Dickens and the Unreal City
1. Introduction: ‘A heap of broken images’
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2. ‘A revelation by which men are to guide themselves’: Dickens and Christian Theology
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3. ‘The debilitated old house in the city’: London as Haunted House
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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
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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’
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Keywords: Literature, Fiction, History of Britain and Ireland, Modern History, Nineteenth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature
- Author(s)
- Smith, Karl Ashley
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2008
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 253 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230583252
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-36074-1