Rereading the City/rereading Dickens: Representation, the Novel, and Urban RealismAMS Press, 2003 - 427 Seiten An interrogation of Dickens' London in a systematic reading. The author's discussions of the novels in their relation to the social, political, technological and scientific discourses of the time articulates metaphoric and mystic aspects of Dickens' urban realism. |
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Representing the City | 1 |
Reading and Legibility in Dickenss City | 40 |
The World Emporium of Dombey and | 142 |
Urheberrecht | |
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