Charles Dickens's networks : public transport and the novel

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Label

Charles Dickens's networks : public transport and the novel

Title remainder

public transport and the novel

Statement of responsibility

Jonathan H. Grossman

Creator

• Grossman, Jonathan H

Subject

• Travel in literature
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Great Britain
• Literature and society
• History
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Travel in literature
• Transportation -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
• 1800-1899
• Transportation

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• History

Language

eng

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

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

823.8

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

PR4592.T73

LC item number

G76 2012eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography