Going astray
Subtitle: Dickens and London
By: Jeremy Tambling.
Publisher: Pearson Longman
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9781405899871
Subjects: Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870 -- Knowledge -- London (England); City and town life in literature; London (England) -- In literature; London (England) -- Civilization -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The eidometropolis: a view of London. Eighteenth-century London; title: Wordsworth's London; title: Dickens in London; title: Reading the city; title: Street-scenes: sb, with Pickwick papers and Nicholas Nickleby; title: Street-life: sb; title: Pickwick papers; title: Nicholas Nickleby; title: Newgate London: Oliver Twist. Hanging clothes; title: Islington to Field Lane; title: Bethnal Green to Chertsey; title: North London; title: Jacob's Island; title: London as ruin: tales from Master Humphrey's clock; title: Antiquarian history; title: Master Humphrey's clock; title: The old curiosity shop; title: The old curiosity shop and allegory; title: Towards Barnaby Rudge; title: Barnaby Rudge and London. Camden town: Dombey and son; title: The railway world; title: Dombey's London; title: Dickens and Ruskin; title: Trains and trauma; title: Modernising London: David Copperfield. Warren's blacking factory; title: The Strand; title: The borough; title: The modern Babylon; title: London before the law: Bleak house. London as archive; title: Legal London; title: Consecrated ground; title: 'Mudfog'; title: London and taboo: Little Dorrit. The city; title: Marseilles/Marshalsea; title: Mrs Clennam's secret; title: Bleeding Heart yard; title: Mrs Merdle's parrot; title: The warm baths; title: Traumatic London: Great expectations. Smithfield; title: St Paul's and Newgate; title: Newgate and Walworth; title: Hanging fantasies; title: Newgate and Estella; title: The river; title: Estella and the city; title: 'City full of dreams': the uncommercial traveller. Melancholy; title: The city; title: Fashionable London; title: Institutions; title: Death; title: 'Night walks'; title: 'The scene of my death': our mutual friend; title: The river; title: Waste; title: Headstone/heterogeneity; title: Dickens and Gissing. London after Dickens; title: Gissing in London; title: Realism and idealism; title: Suburban London; title: Conclusion.