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Through a comprehensive study of Dickens’ career this work examines the crucial role played by London in the character of the man and the development of his writing. It discusses the significance of Dickens’ early childhood experience in moving to London, and the special place the city came to hold in his creative imagination throughout his life. Then, blending biography and literary analysis with urban and social history, Dr Schwarzbach traces the fascinating and often dramatic relationship of the novels to the ever changing Victorian urban scene. The novels emerge not only as valuable historical documents, astonishing in their comprehensiveness and accuracy of detail, but as a unique contribution to the growth of modern urban culture.
Dr Schwarzbach is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Washington University in St Louis.
List of PlatesA note on the ReferencesIntroduction: The Genesis of a Myth1 Sketches by Boz: Fiction for the Metropolis2 Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby: Labyrinthine London3 The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge: Breakdown and Breakthrough4 Martin Chuzzlewit: Architecture and Accommodation5 Dombey and Son: The World Metropolis6 Bleak House: Homes for the Homeless7 Hard Times: The Industrial City8 Little Dorrit: People Like Houses9 A Tale of Two Cities, The Uncommercial Traveller and Great Expectations: Paradise Revisited10 Our Mutual Friend: The Changing CityEpilogue: Dickens and the CityAppendix I: A Note on George ScharfAppendix II: A Note on Sources and Further ReadingSelect BibliographyNotesIndex
