Dickens's London : perception, subjectivity and phenomenal urban multiplicity /

Dickens's London : perception, subjectivity and phenomenal urban multiplicity /

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Author / Creator:Wolfreys, Julian, 1958- author.
Imprint:Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2012]
©2012
Description:1 online resource (xx, 251 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture
Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
Subject:
Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870.
Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870 -- Knowledge and learning.
Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870.
Learning and scholarship.
Literature.
London (England) -- In literature.
London (England) -- History -- 19th century.
England -- London.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11138101
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ISBN:9780748656035
0748656030
9780748656059
0748656057
9780748656042
0748656049
9781474429795
1474429793
9781280874864
1280874864
9786613716170
6613716170
9780748640409
0748640401
Digital file characteristics:data file
Language / Script:Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-249) and index.
English.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Project MUSE, viewed November 4, 2020).
Summary:Taking Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project as its model, Dickens's City offers an exciting and original project that opens a dialogue between phenomenology, philosophy and the Dickensian representation of the city in all its forms. Julian Wolfreys suggests that in their representations of London - its streets, buildings, public institutions, domestic residences, rooms and phenomena that constitute such space - Dickens's novels and journalism can be seen as forerunners of urban and material phenomenology. While also addressing those aspects of the urban that are developed from Dickens's interpretations of other literary forms, styles and genres, Dickens's City presents in twenty-six episodes (from Bells, Bridges and Butlers via Inns and Interiors and Public Houses, the Police and the Post to Todgers and the Thames) a radical reorientation to London in the nineteenth century, the development of Dickens as a writer, and the ways in which readers today receive and perceive both. Key Features Major reassessment of Dickens's writing on the city Dual focus on methodology and the historicity of Dickensian urban consciousness Philosophical reflections on urban tropologies through key passages from Dickens's texts recreate the experience of Victorian London Inventive structure offers the reader an experience of the disordered multiplicity of London Illustrated with 19 maps and photographs
Other form:Print version: Wolfreys, Julian, 1958- Dickens's London. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2012 0748640401
Standard no.:9786613716170
Table of Contents:
  • Arrivals (and returns)
  • Banking and breakfast : Gray's Inn Square, Temple Bar, Strand Lane
  • Chambers : Holborn, Staple Inn, Furnival's Inn
  • Dismal : Little Britain, Smithfield, Saint Paul's Cathedral
  • Exteriors : Golden Square, Portland Place, Bryanstone Square
  • Faded gentility : Camden Town
  • Gothic : Seven Dials, Walworth, Covent Garden, India House, Aldgate Pump, Whitechapel Church, Commercial Road, Wapping Old Stairs, St George's in the East, Snow Hill, Newgate
  • Heart : St Paul's Cathedral
  • Insolvent court : Portugal Street, Lincoln's Inn, Houndsditch, Tyburn, Whitechapel, St George's Fields, Southwark
  • Jaggers's house : Gerrard Street, Soho
  • Krook's : by Lincoln's Inn
  • Life and death : Snow Hill, the Saracen's Head, Smithfield, Saint James's Parish, Saint Sepulchre's Church
  • Melancholy : Leadenhall Street, Newgate, Lant Street, Borough, St George the Martyr
  • Nocturnal : Millbank
  • Obstructive : Tower Street Ward
  • Poverty : Angel, Islington, St John's Road, Sadler's Wells Theatre, Exmouth Street, Coppice Row, Hockley-in-the-Hole, Saffron Hill, Field Lane
  • Quiet : Soho Square, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Old Square
  • Resignation : Todgers's, somewhere adjacent to the Monument
  • Spring evenings : London
  • Time : The City, Coram's Fields
  • Unfinished : Stagg's Gardens, Camden Town
  • Voice : Brentford, the Borough
  • Walking : St Martin's Court, Covent Garden
  • X marks the spot : St Mary Axe.

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