Charles Dickens's Networks

Jonathan H. Grossman

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Altri dati

Formato:
Hardback
Editore:
Oxford University Press
Anno di pubblicazione
2012
Lingua:
Inglese
Pagine:
272
Dimensioni:
224 X 148
Codice EAN:
9780199644193
Generi:
History, Modern History Literature & Fiction, Literature & Criticism Professional & Technical, Engineering
Altre informazioni:
17 black-and-white halftones and 3 maps
Prezzo di copertina:
£ 25,00

I contenuti

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 town, establishing instead the synchronized, 'standard' time, which now ticks on our clocks. Jonathan Grossman examines the history of public transport's systematic networking of people and how this revolutionized perceptions of time, space, and community, and how the art form of the novel played a special role in synthesizing and understanding it all. Focusing on a trio of road novels by Charles Dickens, he looks first at a key historical moment in the networked community's coming together, then at a subsequent recognition of its tragic limits, and, finally, at the construction of a revised view that expressed the precarious, limited omniscient perspective by which passengers came to imagine their journeying in the network.

Indice

Introduction; ONE: THE SPEEDING OF THE PICKWICK COACH; I. Time; II. Space; III. Serialization; IV. Systems; TWO: ON TRAGEDY'S TRACKS; I. In Clock; II. A Tale That Is Tolled; III. Clock Strikes; THREE: INTERNATIONAL CONNECTIONS; Perspective; Simultaneity; Plottability; AFTERWORD; S

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Grossman gathers his material convincingly. At every stop along the line we're offered something both fresh and useful for the journey ... In the 200th anniversary year of his birth, Grossman's book is a stimulating contribution to the Dickens Roadshow. Gee Williams, Review 31