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Dickens and the Virtual City

Urban Perception and the Production of Social Space

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Gebonden, blz. | Engels
Springer International Publishing | 2017
ISBN13: 9783319350851
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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.

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ISBN13:9783319350851
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Springer International Publishing

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<div><p>1.&nbsp;Dickensian Counter-Mapping, Overlaying and Troping: Producing the Virtual City.- 2.&nbsp;‘The Railway and the River: conduits of Dickens’s imaginary city’: Ben Moore.- 3.&nbsp;. ‘Re-envisioning Dickens’s City: London through the Eyes of the&nbsp;Flâneur&nbsp;and Asmodeus': Estelle Murail.- 4.&nbsp;‘The Bleeding Heart of Criminal Geography in Dickens’s London’:&nbsp;Cécile Bertrand.- 5.&nbsp;‘“One Hundred and Five, North Tower”: Writing Paris as a prison-home narrative in Charles Dickens’s&nbsp;A Tale of Two Cities’: Divya Athmanathan.- 6.&nbsp;‘The “Something” That His Brain Required: America’s Role in the Development of Dickens’s Urban Imagination’: Nancy Metz.- 7.&nbsp;‘Dickens and his Urban Museum: The City as Ethnological Spectacle’: Fanny Robles.- 8.&nbsp;‘“Reddening the snowy streets”: Manchester, London, Paris, or a tale of three cities’: Catherine Lanone.- 9.&nbsp;‘“Our Mutual City”: The Posterity of the Dickensian Urban Scape’: Georges Letissier.-10.&nbsp;‘The role of hypallage in Dickens’s poetics of the city: the&nbsp;unheimlich&nbsp;voices of&nbsp;Martin Chuzzlewit’: Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay.- 11.&nbsp;‘No thoroughfares in Dickens: impediment, persistence and the city’: Jeremy Tambling.- 12. 'A Production of Two Cities and of Four Illustrators’: Philip Allingham.-</p></div><p></p>
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