Charles Dickens's Networks: Public Transport and the Novel - Softcover

Grossman, Jonathan H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 019968216X ISBN 13: 9780199682164

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2013

Synopsis

The same week in February 1836 that Charles Dickens was hired to write his first novel, The Pickwick Papers, the first railway line in London opened. Charles Dickens's Networks explores the rise of the global, high-speed passenger transport network in the nineteenth century and the indelible impact it made on Dickens's work. The advent first of stage coaches, then of railways and transoceanic steam ships made unprecedented round-trip journeys...

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About the Author

Jonathan H. Grossman is Associate Professor of English at UCLA. He is also the author of The Art of Alibi: English Law Courts and the Novel.

Review

"Grossman is a rigorous and provocative reader of Dickens, and his interventions in Charles Dickens's Networks is most welcome; the volume connects not only Dickens but narrative conceived more broadly to a deeply compelling and warping effect in spatiotemporal perspective that occurred throughout the nineteenth century. ... Grossman's book is indeed provocative and, in its deep rigor, that it will stand the test of time and space." --Victorian Studies

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Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 019968216X
• ISBN 13: 9780199682164
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 272