Joanna Hofer-Robinson

Dickens and Demolition (eBook, PDF)

Literary Afterlives and Mid-Nineteenth Century Urban Development

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Produktbeschreibung

Traces and measures the material impact of Dickens' fiction in London's built environmentDickens 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. Commentators with public voices repeatedly mobilised a Dickensian vocabulary to communicate their opinions about how and where London's built environment should be improved in the mid-nineteenth century, or to justify proposed alterations. In analysing allusions to Dickens in a variety of archival sources, including dramatizations, press reports, political debates, and the visual arts, this book asks what cultural work is performed by literary afterlives, and whether we can trace their material effects in the spaces we inhabit.Key FeaturesIntersects with cross-disciplinary scholarly interests in studies of Dickens, histories of London, literary afterlives and urban studiesThe first study of how Dickens's works were appropriated and mobilised by other people within his lifetimeOffers close analyses of literary and non-literary textsEngages with critical discourse around of literary afterlives

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474420990
• Artikelnr.: 72431036

Autorenporträt

Joanna Hofer-Robinson (née Robinson) is a lecturer in nineteenth-century literature at University College Cork. Joanna completed her doctorate at King's College London, where she held an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award, and then moved to University College Dublin to take up a postdoctoral fellowship funded by the Irish Research Council. With research interests in nineteenth-century literature and theatre, Joanna is Project Lead for a practice-led research project (Dickensian Drama), which has staged two rarely-performed plays.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations and a Note on Editions
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. Charles Dickens and Metropolitan Improvements
2. Sets and the City: Staging Oliver Twist and London
3. Dickensian Afterlives and the Demolition of Field Lane
4. Instrumental Writing: Paperwork, Philanthropy, and Dickens's Involvement in Urban Improvements
5. From Sanitary Reform to Cultural Memory: The Case of Jacob's Island
Coda
Archival Sources and a Note on Method
Select Bibliography
Notes
Index.