Dickens's London

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-909961-67-8
Verlag: Haus Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 157 Seiten, Format (B × H): 128 mm x 198 mm, Gewicht: 226 g

Few novelists have written so intimately about a city as Charles Dickens has about London. A near-photographic memory made his contact with the city indelible from a very young age, and it remained his constant focus. From the coaching inns of his early youth to the taverns and watermen of the Thames, London provided a constant cityscape for his life and work.

Peter Clark illuminates scenes from Dickens’s life, journalism and fiction both through a series of inner city walks and descriptions of London’s first ‘suburbs.’

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clark, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Fitness, Freizeitsport, Gesundheitssport Walking, Wandern, Trekking

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction // 1

WALK ONE: From Trafalgar Square to Lincoln's Inn Fields // 15

WALK TWO: From Lincoln's Inn Fields to the Mansion House // 37

WALK THREE: From Holborn Circus to Soho Square // 55

WALK FOUR: From Bermondsey to Holborn Circus // 79

WALK FIVE: From the Bank of England to Trafalgar Square via Southwark and Westminster // 95

THE FIRST SUBURBS

1. Camden Town // 115

2. Chelsea // 115

3. Greenwich // 120

4. Hampstead // 124

5. Highgate // 128

6. Limehouse // 129

Acknowledgements // 135

Bibliography // 137

Index // 143

Über Autor(innen)

PETER CLARK is a writer, translator, and consultant who was Director of the British Council in Syria (1992–1997). He has written books on Marmaduke Pickthall and Wilfred Thesiger, and has translated fiction and non-fiction from Arabic.