Dickens and the virtual city : urban perception and the production of social space
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Dickens and the virtual city : urban perception and the production of social space
(Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture)
Palgrave Macmillan, c2017
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  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-287) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book explores the aesthetic practices used by Dickens to make the space which we have come to know as the Dickensian City. It concentrates on three very precise techniques for the production of social space (counter-mapping, overlaying and troping). The chapters show the scapes and writings which influenced him and the way he transformed them, packaged them and passed them on for future use. The city is shown to be an imagined or virtual world but with a serious aim for a serious game: Dickens sets up a workshop for the simulation of real societies and cities. This urban building with is transferable to other literatures and medial forms. The book offers vital understanding of how writing and image work in particular ways to recreate and re-enchant society and the built environment. It will be of interest to scholars of literature, media, film, urban studies, politics and economics.
Table of Contents
1. Dickensian Counter-Mapping, Overlaying and Troping: Producing the Virtual City.- 2. 'The Railway and the River: conduits of Dickens's imaginary city': Ben Moore.- 3. . 'Re-envisioning Dickens's City: London through the Eyes of the Flaneur and Asmodeus': Estelle Murail.- 4. 'The Bleeding Heart of Criminal Geography in Dickens's London': Cecile Bertrand.- 5. '"One Hundred and Five, North Tower": Writing Paris as a prison-home narrative in Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities': Divya Athmanathan.- 6. 'The "Something" That His Brain Required: America's Role in the Development of Dickens's Urban Imagination': Nancy Metz.- 7. 'Dickens and his Urban Museum: The City as Ethnological Spectacle': Fanny Robles.- 8. '"Reddening the snowy streets": Manchester, London, Paris, or a tale of three cities': Catherine Lanone.- 9. '"Our Mutual City": The Posterity of the Dickensian Urban Scape': Georges Letissier.- 10. 'The role of hypallage in Dickens's poetics of the city: the unheimlich voices of Martin Chuzzlewit': Francoise Dupeyron-Lafay.- 11. 'No thoroughfares in Dickens: impediment, persistence and the city': Jeremy Tambling.- 12. 'A Production of Two Cities and of Four Illustrators': Philip Allingham.-
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