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No novelist is as intimately connected to a great city as Dickens is to London. The vibrancy and variety of the city determined the shape and character of Dickens' work and he, in turn, re-created London in his fiction. Andrew Sanders retraces Dickens' footsteps through the streets, alleys, highways and byways of the city, exploring the physical nature and architecture of Victorian London. He follows Dickens and his characters from the slums to the City, from the mansions of Mayfair to the respectable inner suburbs of Islington and Bloomsbury. He journeys from the untidiness of Walworth and Camden Town to the villas of Twickenham and Hampstead and semi-rural retreats of Dulwich, Finchley and Highgate. Although vastly changed with time, the London that Dickens created is still vividly present in his writing. The first and greatest of urban novelists, Dickens captures the essence of the central modern social phenomenon - the excitements and problems of the city.
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Andrew Sanders is emeritus Professor of English at the University of Durham. He has written four substantial studies of Dickens and his novels and is the author of The Short Oxford History of English Literature. He is widely published in Victorian literature and culture and has edited and annotated paperback editions of Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Bleak House and A Tale of Two Cities. As a Londoner, born within the sound of Bow Bells, he is intensely attached to the variety, architecture and history of his native city. He is a past President of the Dickens Fellowship and a Trustee of the Charles Dickens Museum.
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This is a beautifully produced high quality book with a number of interesting black and white photographic reproductions of London sites associated with Dickens's novels. The author, Andrew Sanders, is a Dickens scholar and has written extensively on the work of Dickens and Victorian literature. After a long introduction in which Sanders generally places Dickens's characters in London he then delves into greater detail in the next four chapters. These deal with the London of Dickens in the 1820s and 1830s, essentially a pedestrian London, before the advent of the railways. Sanders also spends time dealing with what remains of Dickens's London. In the following chapters the London of the early novels such as Pickwick Papers (1836), Oliver Twist (1837) and Nicholas Nickleby (1838) is discussed, then the legal London of David Copperfield and Bleak House and in the final chapter Dickens and the outer suburbs in which sites associated with Pickwick Papers, Our Mutual Friend, Great Expectations and Dombey and Son are reviewed.
Finally the author very kindly provides three walks, or itineraries as he refers to them, for enthusiasts who wish to actually emulate Dickens's perambulations and see interesting areas redolent of old London. Each walk is around two or three miles and cover the central areas of London associated with Little Dorrit, Bleak House and Oliver Twist.
The book is well written and very nicely presented and is a `must' for those interested in capturing the atmosphere of the novels through the locations and buildings so vibrantly described by Dickens.
Finally the author very kindly provides three walks, or itineraries as he refers to them, for enthusiasts who wish to actually emulate Dickens's perambulations and see interesting areas redolent of old London. Each walk is around two or three miles and cover the central areas of London associated with Little Dorrit, Bleak House and Oliver Twist.
The book is well written and very nicely presented and is a `must' for those interested in capturing the atmosphere of the novels through the locations and buildings so vibrantly described by Dickens.
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excellent photos of old london buildings, smart text, bad type font
29 April 2012
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Profusely illustrated with vintage photos of mid Victorian buildings and streets with background.
Marred by incredibly bad choice of typeface, cramped font and printed without enough ink to make the thin font easily readable. How in this day and age when every 4th grader has 1,000 fonts on their home computer?
The other major difficulty is the gap between very useful information about the London of those times, and the very odd focus of both the early and "dark" Dickens on the contrast between the early stage coach/tavern/inn/criminal/gin and beer soaked era and the lightening changes brought by the railways and subway systems, and wholesale street widening and slum clearance. Unlike Trollope and Thackeray, Dickens almost ignores the peerage and govt powers except with scathing sarcasm and disgust, a totally unbalanced way of looking at the totality of his age. This book might have benefited from some perspective, although it is very good for what it is.
Just be advised it may be harder to read due to type font and far too light inking for easy
reading even under strong light, an inexplicable difficulty in the 21st century, of
computerized typesetting. Oh, Mark Twain, if you could trade your creaky type writer and lino typer for Kinko technology and "tablet wireless pages under plastic".
now.
Marred by incredibly bad choice of typeface, cramped font and printed without enough ink to make the thin font easily readable. How in this day and age when every 4th grader has 1,000 fonts on their home computer?
The other major difficulty is the gap between very useful information about the London of those times, and the very odd focus of both the early and "dark" Dickens on the contrast between the early stage coach/tavern/inn/criminal/gin and beer soaked era and the lightening changes brought by the railways and subway systems, and wholesale street widening and slum clearance. Unlike Trollope and Thackeray, Dickens almost ignores the peerage and govt powers except with scathing sarcasm and disgust, a totally unbalanced way of looking at the totality of his age. This book might have benefited from some perspective, although it is very good for what it is.
Just be advised it may be harder to read due to type font and far too light inking for easy
reading even under strong light, an inexplicable difficulty in the 21st century, of
computerized typesetting. Oh, Mark Twain, if you could trade your creaky type writer and lino typer for Kinko technology and "tablet wireless pages under plastic".
now.
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