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Traces and measures the material impact of Dickens' fiction in London's built environment
Dickens 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 Features
Intersects 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
Contents
Abbreviations and a Note on Editions
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Chapter One
Charles Dickens and Metropolitan Improvements
Chapter Two
Sets and the City: Staging Oliver Twist and London
Chapter Three
Dickensian Afterlives and the Demolition of Field Lane
Chapter Four
Instrumental Writing: Paperwork, Philanthropy, and Dickens's Involvement in Urban Improvements
Chapter Five
From Sanitary Reform to Cultural Memory: The Case of Jacob's Island
Coda
Archival Sources and a Note on Method
Select Bibliography
Notes
