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'Taking his cue from T. S. Eliot, Karl Smith explores the spiritual values of Dickens's symbolic city through the lens of The Waste Land. Combining alert attention to detail with wide range of reference, Dickens and the Unreal City offers judicious discussion of the complex relationship between the mundane and the transcendent in Dickens's world view.' - Paul Schlicke, University of Aberdeen, UK
'This is a judicious study which fully recognises that 'any position of overview from which Dickens's London can be seen in its totality is an artificial construct' ...Rather like the novelist's writing about the city perhaps, this study also serves to revivify a reading of the novels and is a further reminder of their layered richness and complexity and of a spiritual dimension which goes beyond simple ideas of human charity.' The Use of English
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Book Title: Dickens and the Unreal City
Book Subtitle: Searching for Spiritual Significance in Nineteenth-Century London
Authors: Karl Ashley Smith
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230583252
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Karl Ashley Smith 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-54523-6Published: 15 July 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-36074-1Published: 01 January 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-58325-2Published: 15 July 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 244
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Fiction, History of Britain and Ireland, Modern History, Nineteenth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature