Ushashi Dasgupta

Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction

The Lodger World

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the significance of tenancy in Charles Dickens's fiction. Dickens's conception of domesticity was nuanced, and through his works he describes the chaos and unxpected harmony to be found in rented spaces.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780198859116
• ISBN-10: 0198859112
• Artikelnr.: 58455484

Autorenporträt

Ushashi Dasgupta is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oxford and Jonathan and Julia Aisbitt Fellow of English at Pembroke College.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Building a Career: From Sketches to Dombey
* 2: 'To Let To Let To Let': The Bildungsroman and the Spatial
Imagination
* 3: 'The Property of 1851': The Great Exhibition and the Business of
Hospitality
* Interlude: Londoners Maritimized
* 4: 'Is This An Hotel? Are There Thieves in the House?': The Spatial
Contexts of Crime
* 5: How to Live Together: Collaborative Fiction
* Coda: Taking Leave