Dickens and the Virtual City
Urban Perception and the Production of Social Space
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Beschreibung
This book explores the aesthetic practices used by Dickens to make the space which we have come to know as the Dickensian City. It concentrates on three very precise techniques for the production of social space (counter-mapping, overlaying and troping). The chapters show the scapes and writings which influenced him and the way he transformed them, packaged them and passed them on for future use. The city is shown to be an imagined or virtual world but with a serious aim for a serious game: Dickens sets up a workshop for the simulation of real societies and cities. This urban building with is transferable to other literatures and medial forms. The book offers vital understanding of how writing and image work in particular ways to recreate and re-enchant society and the built environment. It will be of interest to scholars of literature, media, film, urban studies, politics and economics.
This book explores the aesthetic practices used by Dickens to make the space which we have come to know as the Dickensian City. It concentrates on three very precise techniques for the production of social space (counter-mapping, overlaying and troping). The chapters show the scapes and writings which influenced him and the way he transformed them, packaged them and passed them on for future use. The city is shown to be an imagined or virtual world but with a serious aim for a serious game: Dickens sets up a workshop for the simulation of real societies and cities. This urban building with is transferable to other literatures and medial forms. The book offers vital understanding of how writing and image work in particular ways to recreate and re-enchant society and the built environment. It will be of interest to scholars of literature, media, film, urban studies, politics and economics.
Concentrates on three techniques for the production of social space (counter-mapping, overlaying and troping) within Dickens’s novels and paratext Examines the scapes and writings which influenced him and the way he transformed them, packaged them and passed them on for future use Speaks to areas such as urban studies in addition to literary studies Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Estelle Murail
Themen in »Dickens and the Virtual City«
Victorianism Urban Studies City Novel Charles Dickens and the city British and Irish Literature urban geography and urbanism
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“It is a topic that has appealed to scholars and anyone fascinated by Britain’s world city, but also by the representation of urban experience as a phenomenon of modernity, as well as postmodernity.” (Efraim Sicher, Dickens Quarterly, Vol. 37 (1), March, 2020)
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