Going astray : Dickens and London

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Going astray : Dickens and London

Jeremy Tambling

Person Education Limited, c2009

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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'Among the numerous books on Dickens's London, Going Astray is unique in combining detailed topography and biography with close textual analysis and theoretically informed critiques of most of the novelist's major works. In Jeremy Tambling's intriguing and illuminating synthesis, the London A-Z meets Nietzsche, Benjamin and Derrida.' Rick Allen, author of The Moving Pageant: A Literary Sourcebook on London Street-Life, 1700-1914 Dickens wrote so insistently about London its streets, its people, its unknown areas that certain parts of the city are forever haunted by him. Going Astray: Dickens and London looks at the novelist's delight in losing the self in the labyrinthine city and maps that interest, onto the compulsion to 'go astray' in writing. Drawing on all Dickens' published writings (including the journalism but concentrating on the novels), Jeremy Tambling considers the author's kaleidoscopic characterisations of London: as prison and as legal centre; as the heart of empire and of traumatic memory; as the place of the uncanny; as an old curiosity shop. His study examines the relations between narrative and the city, and explores how the metropolis encapsulates the problems of modernity for Dickens as well as suggesting the limits of representation. Combining contemporary literary and cultural theory with historical maps, photographs and contextual detail, Jeremy Tambling's book is an indispensable guide to Dickens, nineteenth- century literature, and the city itself.

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Going Astray: Dickens and London By Jeremy Tambling TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter One: Introduction: Dickens and London I - Writing London II - Dickens in London III - Eighteenth Century London IV - Wordsworth's London Chapter Two: Dickens London, Allegory I - Street-life: Sketches by Boz II - London as Ruin III - Holborn / Holbein Chapter Three: Mapping the City: Oliver Twist I - Hanging Clothes II - Islington to Field Lane III - Bethnal Green to Chertsey IV - North London V - Jacob's Island Chapter Four: Tales from Master Humphrey's Clock I - Antiquarian History II - Master Humphrey's Clock III - The Old Curiosity Shop IV - The Old Curiosity Shop and Allegory V - Towards Barnaby Rudge VI - Barnaby Rudge and London Chapter Five: Camden Town: The Railway in Dombey and Son I - The Railway World II - London in Dombey and Son III - Dickens and Ruskin IV - Trains and Trauma Chapter Six: David Copperfield II - The Strand III - The Borough IV - The Modern Babylon Chapter Seven: Bleak House: London Before the Law II - Legal London III - Consecrated Ground IV - 'Mudfog' Chapter Eight: London and Taboo: Little Dorrit I - The City II - Marseilles/ Marshalsea III - Mrs Clennam's Secret IV - Bleeding Heart Yard V - Mrs Merdle's Parrot VI - The Warm Baths Chapter Nine: Traumatic London: Great Expectations I - Smithfield II - St Paul's and Newgate III - Newgate and Walworth IV - Hanging Fantasies V - Newgate and Estella VI - The River VII - Estella and the City Chapter Ten: 'The Scene of My Death': The River in Our Mutual Friend III - The River: Bermondsey and Millbank IV - The River V - Waste VI - Headstone and Heterogeneity Chapter Eleven: 'City Full of Dreams': The Uncommercial Traveller I - Journalism II - 'Recollections of Mortality' III - London and Melancholy IV - Fashionable London V - London Institutions VI - Dickens's Night Thoughts Chapter Twelve: Dickens's London: Dickens and Gissing I - London after Dickens II - Gissing in London III - Realism and Idealism IV - Suburban London Notes Dickens's London: A Gazetteer

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