Charles Dickens and the properties of fiction : the lodger world / Ushashi Dasgupta.
2020
PR4592
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Title
Charles Dickens and the properties of fiction : the lodger world / Ushashi Dasgupta.
ISBN
9780191891670 (electronic book)
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (336 pages).
Call Number
PR4592
Dewey Decimal Classification
823.8
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.
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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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 4, 2020).
Series
Oxford English monographs.
Oxford scholarship online.
Oxford scholarship online.
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Print version: 9780198859116
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