Dickens and Demolition : : Literary Afterlives and Mid-Nineteenth Century Urban Development / / Joanna Hofer-Robinson.
Traces and measures the material impact of Dickens’ fiction in London’s built environmentDickens 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 du...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Abbreviations and a Note on Editions -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Charles Dickens and Metropolitan Improvements -- Chapter 2 Sets and the City: Staging London and Oliver Twist -- Chapter 3 Dickensian Afterlives and the Demolition of Field Lane -- Chapter 4 Paperwork and Philanthropy: Dickens’s Involvement in Metropolitan Improvement -- Chapter 5 From Sanitary Reform to Cultural Memory: The Case of Jacob’s Island -- Coda -- Archival Sources and a Note on Method -- Select Bibliography -- Index |
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