Dickens's London: Perception, Subjectivity and Phenomenal Urban Multiplicity

Julian Wolfreys

Open Access Published by Edinburgh University Press 2012

Dickens's London

Perception, Subjectivity and Phenomenal Urban Multiplicity

Julian Wolfreys

In the series Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748656035

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About this book

Taking Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project as its model, Dickens's City 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 of urban and material phenomenology. While also addressing those aspects of the urban that are developed from Dickens's interpretations of other literary forms, styles and genres, Dickens's City presents in twenty-six episodes (from Bells, Bridges and Butlers via Inns and Interiors and Public Houses, the Police and the Post to Todgers and the Thames) a radical reorientation to London in the nineteenth century, the development of Dickens as a writer, and the ways in which readers today receive and perceive both.

Key Features

Major reassessment of Dickens's writing on the city
Dual focus on methodology and the historicity of Dickensian urban consciousness
Philosophical reflections on urban tropologies through key passages from Dickens's texts recreate the experience of Victorian London
Inventive structure offers the reader an experience of the disordered multiplicity of London
Illustrated with 19 maps and photographs

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations and Maps Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Series Editor’s Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Advertisement Publicly Available Download PDF	xii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xvi
Dickens’s London Open Access Download PDF	1
Dickens, our Contemporary Open Access Download PDF	201
Notes Open Access Download PDF	234
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	244
Index Open Access Download PDF	250

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 272
Illustrations
- Other: 19 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: May 23, 2012
ISBN: 9780748656035