Charles Dickens and the properties of fiction : the lodger world / Ushashi Dasgupta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dasgupta, Ushashi, 1989- author.

Series:

Oxford English monographs.

Oxford English monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Criticism and interpretation.

Dickens, Charles.

London (England)--In literature.

London (England).

England--London.

England.

Architecture, Domestic, in literature.

Boardinghouses in literature.

Literature and society--England--History--19th century.

Literature and society.

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 pages).

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

This book explores the significance of rental culture in Charles Dickens's fiction and journalism. It reveals tenancy, or the leasing of real estate in exchange for money, to be a governing force in everyday life in the nineteenth century. It casts a light into back attics and landladies' parlours, and follows a host of characters-from slum landlords exploiting their tenants, to pairs of friends deciding to live together and share the rent. In this period, tenancy shaped individuals, structured communities, and fascinated writers. The vast majority of London's population had an immediate economic relationship with the houses and rooms they inhabited, and Dickens was highly attuned to the social, psychological, and imaginative corollaries of this phenomenon.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-260295-0

0-19-189167-3

0-19-260294-2