Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xx, 251 pages)
,
illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0748640401
,
0748656030
,
9780748640409
,
9780748656035
Series Statement:
Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture
Content:
This phenomenological exploration of the streets of Dickens's London opens up new perspectives on the city and the writer. Taking Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project as an inspiration, Dickens's London 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
Content:
Cover; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations and Maps; Series Editor's Preface; Abbreviations; Advertisement; Acknowledgements; Preface; Dickens's London; 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
Content:
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, NewgateHeart 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
Content:
Obstructive Tower Street WardPoverty 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; Unfi nished Stagg's Gardens, Camden Town; Voice Brentford, the Borough; Walking St Martin's Court, Covent Garden; X Marks the Spot St Mary Axe; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Proper Names
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-249) and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780748656035
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Wolfreys, Julian, 1958- Dickens's London Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2012 ISBN 9780748656035
Language:
English
Keywords:
Dickens, Charles 1812-1870
;
London
