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Dickens and the Virtual City

Dickens and the Virtual City


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


About the Author:

Estelle Murail is Research Fellow in the LARCA research centre at the University of Paris Diderot, France. She also teaches at the at the Lycée Saint-Jean de Passy in Paris. She gained her jointly-supervised PhD in English Literature at the Université Paris Diderot and King's College London. Her PhD examined the figure of the flâneur in London and Paris in the Nineteenth Century. She has published several articles on flânerie, London and Paris in literature. She has taught English Literature and translation at the Université Paris-Diderot, at the Université Paris Est Marne-La-Vallée and at Sciences-Po Paris.

Sara Thornton is Professor of English at the University of Paris Diderot, France, where she teaches nineteenth-century literature and cultural studies. She is president of the SFEVE (Société Française d'Etudes Victoriennes et Edouardiennes). She has published Advertising, Subjectivity and the Nineteenth-Century Novel (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), David Copperfield (2006), Circulation and Transfer of Key Scenes in Nineteenth-Century Literature (2010), Persistent Dickens (with Alain Jumeau, 2012), and Littérature et publicité (co-edited with L. Guellec and F. Hache-Bissette, 2012). She is currently working on the way aesthetics responds to economic pressures in the nineteenth-century in Britain and the Empire.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9783319817200
  • Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 17 mm
  • Weight: 426 gr
  • ISBN-10: 3319817205
  • Publisher Date: 17 May 2018
  • Height: 210 mm
  • No of Pages: 295
  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
  • Sub Title: Urban Perception and the Production of Social Space
  • Width: 148 mm


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