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Dickens and Demolition: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture

Autor Joanna Hofer-Robinson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 iun 2020
'Dickens and Demolition shows how Dickens shaped London. Not only was the novelist actively involved in urban sanitation schemes, but his fictional depiction of London's most deprived areas helped to bring down buildings, and construct new streets. As Hofer-Robinson vividly demonstrates here, novels have afterlives, and literary tropes sometimes have decidedly material effects.' Nicholas Daly, University College Dublin The first study to trace and measure the material impact of Dickens's fiction in London's built environment Dickens and Demolition examines how tropes, characters or extracts from Dickens's fiction were repurposed as a portable terminology in arguments for large-scale demolition and redevelopment projects in London during his lifetime. In analysing allusions to Dickens in a variety of archival sources, including dramatisations, press reports, political debates and the visual arts, this book asks what cultural work is performed by literary afterlives, and whether we can trace their material effects in the spaces we inhabit. Joanna Hofer-Robinson is Lecturer in nineteenth-century literature at University College Cork. Cover image: The Construction of the Metropolitan District Railway © The Museum of London Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-2098-3 Barcode
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ISBN-13: 9781474462730
ISBN-10: 1474462731
Pagini: 264
Ilustrații: 19 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 155 x 234 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Seria Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture


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Joanna Hofer-Robinson (née Robinson) is a lecturer in nineteenth-century literature at University College Cork. Joanna completed her doctorate at King's College London, where she held an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award, and then moved to University College Dublin to take up a postdoctoral fellowship funded by the Irish Research Council. With research interests in nineteenth-century literature and theatre, Joanna is Project Lead for a practice-led research project (Dickensian Drama), which has staged two rarely-performed plays.

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Abbreviations and a Note on Editions; List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1. Charles Dickens and Metropolitan Improvements; 2. Sets and the City: Staging Oliver Twist and London; 3. Dickensian Afterlives and the Demolition of Field Lane; 4. Instrumental Writing: Paperwork, Philanthropy, and Dickens's Involvement in Urban Improvements; 5. From Sanitary Reform to Cultural Memory: The Case of Jacob's Island; Coda; Archival Sources and a Note on Method; Select Bibliography; Notes; Index.

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Dickens 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 during his lifetime.