Going Astray: Dickens and London

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		Going Astray: Dickens and London
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基本信息·出版社：Longman
·页码：400 页
·出版日期：2008年11月
·ISBN：1405899875
·International Standard Book Number：1405899875
·条形码：9781405899871
·EAN：9781405899871
·版本：1
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语

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Among the numerous books on Dickens's London, Going Astray is unique in combining detailed topography and biography with close textual analysis and theoretically informed critiques of most of the novelist's major works. In Jeremy Tambling's intriguing and illuminating synthesis, the London A-Z meets Nietzsche, Benjamin and Derrida.' Rick Allen, author of The Moving Pageant: A Literary Sourcebook on London Street-Life, 1700-1914 Dickens wrote so insistently about London its streets, its people, its unknown areas that certain parts of the city are forever haunted by him. Going Astray: Dickens and London looks at the novelist's delight in losing the self in the labyrinthine city and maps that interest, onto the compulsion to go astray' in writing. Drawing on all Dickens' published writings (including the journalism but concentrating on the novels), Jeremy Tambling considers the author's kaleidoscopic characterisations of London: as prison and as legal centre; as the heart of empire and of traumatic memory; as the place of the uncanny; as an old curiosity shop. His study examines the relations between narrative and the city, and explores how the metropolis encapsulates the problems of modernity for Dickens as well as suggesting the limits of representation. Combining contemporary literary and cultural theory with historical maps, photographs and contextual detail, Jeremy Tambling's book is an indispensable guide to Dickens, nineteenth- century literature, and the city itself.
作者简介

Jeremy Tambling is Professor of Literature at the University of Manchester. An acknowledged expert on Dickens and on cities, he is the author of, among others, Re:Verse (Longman, 2007), Blake’s Night Thoughts (Palgrave, 2004), and Becoming Posthumous (Edinburgh University Press, 2001).

媒体推荐 "Jeremy Tambling's richly rewarding book about the most haunted metropolis in fiction." - The Independent, 15 December 2008 (readership 714,000)

"Tambling delivers subtle and sinuous reading[s] of individual works. He shows how deeply Dickens' fiction inhabits London places."- Times Higher Education, December 2008 (readership 88,000)
专业书评 From the Back Cover

'Going astray, as this intelligent and provocative study proves, is the most rewarding technique for not-arriving, for detouring with purpose, recovering the dark soul of London, and the fictive ghosts who lead us by the elbow. Everything is lost but nothing vanishes. Charles Dickens, triumphantly rescued from the febrile embrace of heritage, the cold kiss of academia, sets out at twilight to tramp those unforgiving miles, the fathomless labyrinth of his imagination…’

 

Iain Sinclair, author of Lights Out for the Territory andLondon Orbital

 

‘Among the numerous books on Dickens’ London, Going Astrayis unique in combining detailed topography and biography with close textual analysis and theoretically informed critiques of most of the novelist’s major works. In Jeremy Tambling’s intriguing and illuminating synthesis, the London A-Z meets Nietzsche, Benjamin and Derrida.’

 

Rick Allen, author of The Moving Pageant: A Literary Sourcebook on London Street-Life, 1700-1914

 

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目录

Going Astray: Dickens and London

By Jeremy Tambling

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter One: Introduction: Dickens and London

I – Writing London

II – Dickens in London

III – Eighteenth Century London

IV – Wordsworth’s London

Chapter Two: Dickens London, Allegory

I – Street-life: Sketches by Boz

II – London as Ruin

III – Holborn / Holbein

Chapter Three: Mapping the City: Oliver Twist

 I – Hanging Clothes

 II – Islington to Field Lane

 III – Bethnal Green to Chertsey

 IV – North London

 V – Jacob’s Island

Chapter Four: Tales from Master Humphrey’s Clock

 I – Antiquarian History

 II – Master Humphrey’s Clock

 III – The Old Curiosity Shop

 IV – The Old Curiosity Shop and Allegory

 V – Towards Barnaby Rudge

 VI – Barnaby Rudge and London

Chapter Five: Camden Town: The Railway in Dombey and Son

 I – The Railway World

 II – London in Dombey and Son

 III – Dickens and Ruskin

 IV – Trains and Trauma 

Chapter Six: David Copperfield

 II – The Strand

 III – The Borough

 IV – The Modern Babylon

Chapter Seven: Bleak House: London Before the Law

 II – Legal London

 III – Consecrated Ground

 IV – ‘Mudfog’

Chapter Eight: London and Taboo: Little Dorrit

 I – The City

 II – Marseilles/ Marshalsea

 III – Mrs Clennam’s Secret

 IV – Bleeding Heart Yard

 V – Mrs Merdle’s Parrot

 VI – The Warm Baths

Chapter Nine: Traumatic London: Great Expectations

 I – Smithfield

 II – St Paul’s and Newgate

 III – Newgate and Walworth

 IV – Hanging Fantasies

 V – Newgate and Estella

 VI – The River

 VII – Estella and the City

Chapter Ten: ‘The Scene of My Death’: The River in Our Mutual Friend &nbssp;                  

III – The River: Bermondsey and Millbank

IV – The River

V – Waste

VI – Headstone and Heterogeneity

Chapter Eleven: ‘City Full of Dreams’: The Uncommercial Traveller

I – Journalism

II – ‘Recollections of Mortality’

III – London and Melancholy

IV – Fashionable London

V – London Institutions

VI – Dickens’s Night Thoughts

Chapter Twelve: Dickens’s London: Dickens and Gissing

I – London after Dickens

II – Gissing in London

III – Realism and Idealism

IV – Suburban London

Notes

Dickens’s London: A Gazetteer

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