Dickens's London
Clark, Peter, 1939-2012
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Based on five walks through central London, Peter Clark illuminates the settings of Dickens's greatest works, his life, his journalism and his fiction. Few novelists have written so intimately about a city in the way that Charles Dickens wrote about London. A nearphotographic memory made his contact with the city indelible from a very young age and it remained his constant focus. Virginia Woolf maintained that, "we remodel our psychological geography when we read Dickens," as he produces "characters who exist not in detail, not accurately or exactly, but abundantly in a cluster of wild yet extraordinarily revealing remarks." But the "character" he was drawn back to throughout his novels was London itself, all aspects of the capital from the coaching inns of his early years to the taverns and watermen of the Thames; these were the constant cityscapes of his life and work.
Main title:
Dickens's London / Peter Clark.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Armchair Traveller, 2012.
Collation:
130 p. : ill., maps, photos. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781907973192 (hbk)
Dewey class:
914.210486
Language:
English
Subject:
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Homes and haunts -- England -- LondonLiterary landmarks -- England -- London -- GuidebooksWalking -- England -- London -- GuidebooksTravel and TourismTravel & holidayLondon, Greater LondonLiterary studies: c 1800 to c 1900Local historyWalking, hiking, trekkingLiterature: history & criticismTravel writingUnited Kingdom, Great BritainIrelandLondon (England) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century -- GuidebooksLondon (England) -- Guidebooks
BRN:
2393174