Charles Dickens's networks : public transport and the novel / Jonathan H. Grossman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grossman, Jonathan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

Dickens, Charles.

Transportation in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 across once seemingly far distances seem ordinary and systematic. Time itself was changed. The Victorians overran the separate, local times kept in each

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Chapter One: The Speeding of the Pickwick Coach; I. Time; II. Space; III. Serialization; IV. Systems; Chapter Two: On Tragedy's Tracks; I. In Clock; II. A Tale That Is Tolled; III. Clock Strikes; Chapter Three: International Connections; I. Perspective; II. Simultaneity; III. Plottability; Afterword; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-280-59412-8

9786613623959

0-19-163231-7

OCLC:

817082600