Dickens and demolition : literary afterlives and mid-nineteenth century urban development / Joanna Hofer-Robinson.
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TextSeries: Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culturePublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (some color)Content type: - text
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- online resource
- 9781474420990
- 1474420990
- 9781474421003
- 1474421008
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
- Urbanization -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- City planning -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Urbanisation -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain
- City planning
- Urbanization
- Great Britain
- 1800-1899
- 823/.809 23
- PR4592.C56
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 24, 2018).
Dickens and Demolition examines how tropes, characters, or extracts from Dickens' fiction were repurposed as a portable terminology in arguments for large-scale demolition and redevelopment projects in London during his lifetime.
1. Charles Dickens and Metropolitan Improvements -- 2. Sets and the City: Staging London and Oliver Twist -- 3. Dickensian Afterlives and the Demolition of Field Lane -- 4. Paperwork and Philanthropy: Dickens's Involvement in Metropolitan Improvement -- 5. From Sanitary Reform to Cultural Memory: The Case of Jacob's Island.
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