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Angel Place: A Way In to Dickens's London
Dickens's London is surely the most potent of all literary versions of a world city, the one where the novels and the real social history have fused fast into working, living, experience. And it is surely the one where different kinds of writing – fiction, journalism, social and speculative histories – lie most tightly packed together. Dickens, like Cedric Price, shows you London in a different way; not to do with how it looks, but to do with how it works – theatrically, socially, structurally, politically, dramatically, humanly – all around us, every day. Here the author apprehends that, like the butter shop, Little Dorrit seemed to be blocking his way in. Dickens was a real bloodhound for urban history. The morphology of London drives a surprising amount of his plots. His detailed, critical, analytic performance of London runs alongside, and ahead of, the urban mapping which retrospectively charted the chaotic, exponential growth of the world's first megacity.
Angel Place: A Way In to Dickens's London
Dickens's London is surely the most potent of all literary versions of a world city, the one where the novels and the real social history have fused fast into working, living, experience. And it is surely the one where different kinds of writing – fiction, journalism, social and speculative histories – lie most tightly packed together. Dickens, like Cedric Price, shows you London in a different way; not to do with how it looks, but to do with how it works – theatrically, socially, structurally, politically, dramatically, humanly – all around us, every day. Here the author apprehends that, like the butter shop, Little Dorrit seemed to be blocking his way in. Dickens was a real bloodhound for urban history. The morphology of London drives a surprising amount of his plots. His detailed, critical, analytic performance of London runs alongside, and ahead of, the urban mapping which retrospectively charted the chaotic, exponential growth of the world's first megacity.
Angel Place: A Way In to Dickens's London
Borden, Iain (editor) / Fraser, Murray (editor) / Penner, Barbara (editor) / Rattenbury, Kester (author)
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2015-03-24
6 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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