Dickens and the City

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Contents: Introduction The Dickens world: a view from Todgers's, Dorothy Van Ghent Dickens: realism, subjunctive and indicative, Donald Fanger Dickens's slum satire in Bleak House, Trevor Blount The strategy and theme of urban observation in Bleak House, Alan R. Burke Introduction to Dombey and Son, Raymond Williams The city and the river: Dickens's symbolic landscape, Avrom Fleishman Dickens and London, Philip Collins Little Dorrit in Italy, William Burgan City life and the novel: Hugo, Ainsworth, Dickens, Richard Maxwell Dickens the flAcneur, Michael Hollington Bleak House and Victorian art and illustration: Charles Dickens's visual narrative style, Donald H. Ericksen Dickens, Ruskin and the city: parallels or influence?, Charles Swann Dickens's sublime artifact, Ronald R. Thomas The grotesque and urban chaos in Bleak House, Kay Hetherly Wright London, Dickens, and the theatre of homelessness, Murray Baumgarten Dickens, 'Household Words', and the Paris boulevards (parts I and II), Michael Hollington Dickensian architextures or, the city and the ineffable, Julian Wolfreys The Uncommercial Traveller and the later Dickens, Robin Gilmour Bleak House, Vanity Fair, and the making of an urban aesthetic, Sambudha Sen City spaces: Martin Chuzzlewit, Jeremy Tambling 'Turn again, Dick Whittington!': Dickens, Wordsworth, and the boundaries of the city, Patrick Parrinder Touring the metropolis: the shifting subjects of Dickens's London sketches, David Seed An Italian dream and a castle in the air: the significance of Venice in Little Dorrit, Peter Orford Hogarth, Egan, Dickens and the making of an urban aesthetic, Sambudha Sen A more expansive reach: the geography of the Thames in Our Mutual Friend, Michelle Allen Dickens: intimations of apocalypse, Robert Alter Name index.