Dickens's London : perception, subjectivity and phenomenal urban multiplicity

Dickens's London : perception, subjectivity and phenomenal urban multiplicity /

Taking Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project as its model, Dickens's City offers an exciting and original project that opens a dialogue between phenomenology, philosophy and the Dickensian representation of the city in all its forms. Julian Wolfreys suggests that in their representations of Lo...

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Online Access: Access full-text online via JSTOR
Author / Contributor: Wolfreys, Julian, 1958- (Author)
Imprint: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2012]
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Subjects:
Dickens, Charles, > 1812-1870.
Dickens, Charles, > 1812-1870 > Knowledge and learning.
Dickens, Charles, > 1812-1870 > Knowledge > England > London.
London (England) > In literature.
London (England) > History > 19th century.
Series:Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
Table of Contents:
  • Arrivals (and returns)
  • Banking and breakfast : Gray's Inn Square, Temple Bar, Strand Lane
  • Chambers : Holborn, Staple Inn, Furnival's Inn
  • Dismal : Little Britain, Smithfield, Saint Paul's Cathedral
  • Exteriors : Golden Square, Portland Place, Bryanstone Square
  • Faded gentility : Camden Town
  • Gothic : Seven Dials, Walworth, Covent Garden, India House, Aldgate Pump, Whitechapel Church, Commercial Road, Wapping Old Stairs, St George's in the East, Snow Hill, Newgate
  • Heart : St Paul's Cathedral
  • Insolvent court : Portugal Street, Lincoln's Inn, Houndsditch, Tyburn, Whitechapel, St George's Fields, Southwark
  • Jaggers's house : Gerrard Street, Soho
  • Krook's : by Lincoln's Inn
  • Life and death : Snow Hill, the Saracen's Head, Smithfield, Saint James's Parish, Saint Sepulchre's Church
  • Melancholy : Leadenhall Street, Newgate, Lant Street, Borough, St George the Martyr
  • Nocturnal : Millbank
  • Obstructive : Tower Street Ward
  • Poverty : Angel, Islington, St John's Road, Sadler's Wells Theatre, Exmouth Street, Coppice Row, Hockley-in-the-Hole, Saffron Hill, Field Lane
  • Quiet : Soho Square, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Old Square
  • Resignation : Todgers's, somewhere adjacent to the Monument
  • Spring evenings : London
  • Time : The City, Coram's Fields
  • Unfinished : Stagg's Gardens, Camden Town
  • Voice : Brentford, the Borough
  • Walking : St Martin's Court, Covent Garden
  • X marks the spot : St Mary Axe.

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