Dickens and the Unreal City
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Dickens and the Unreal City

Searching for Spiritual Significance in Nineteenth-Century London

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Dickens and the Unreal City

Searching for Spiritual Significance in Nineteenth-Century London

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Dickens's London often acts as a complex symbol, composed of numerous sub-symbols, such as crowd, river, railway networks and police systems. This book is particularly interested in how Dickens's treatment of the city allows him to re-examine traditional Christian discourses on the issues of revelation, renunciation and regeneration.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2008
ISBN
9780230583252
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literature General
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Illustrations
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. List of Abbreviations
  6. Introduction: ‘A heap of broken images’
  7. 1 ‘A revelation by which men are to guide themselves’: Dickens and Christian Theology
  8. 2 ‘The debilitated old house in the city’: London as Haunted House
  9. 3 ‘A great (and dirty) city’: London’s Dirt and the Terrors of Obscurity
  10. 4 ‘Angel and devil by turns’: The Detective Figure in Bleak House
  11. 5 ‘A road of ashes’: London’s Railway and the Providential Timetable
  12. Plate section
  13. 6 ‘The secrets of the river’: The Thames within London
  14. 7 ‘A dream of demon heads and savage eyes’: Dickens’s Metropolitan Crowd
  15. Conclusion: ‘What is the city over the mountains’
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index