Dickens and the unreal city
Subtitle: searching for spiritual significance in nineteenth-century London
By: Karl Ashley Smith.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870 -- Knowledge -- London (England); Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870 -- Religion; Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870 -- Symbolism; London (England) -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A revelation by which men are to guide themselves : Dickens and Christian theology; title: The debilitated old house in the city : London as haunted house; title: A great (and dirty) city : London's dirt and the terrors of obscurity; title: Angel and Devil by turns : the detective figure in Bleak House; title: A road of ashes : London's railways and the Providential timetable; title: The secrets of the river : the Thames within London; title: A dream of demon heads and savage eyes : the metropolitan crowd.