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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVC
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 19 illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- 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