Commodifying Culture: Continental Travel and Tourism in Household Words
Journal: Kent Academic Repository (University of Kent)
Year: 2010

In Book Two of Little Dorrit, Dickens describes the prevailing air of unreality that his heroine finds touring through Switzerland and Italy under the command of Mrs General: in Rome, [e]verybody was walking about St Peters and the Vatican on somebody elses cork legs, and straining every visible object through somebody elses sieve.Nobody said what anything was, but everybody said what the Mrs Generals, Mr Eustace, or somebody else said it was (LD II vii 428).Dickenss satire on the social pretens