Tambling, Jeremy,

Dickens' novels as poetry : allegory and literature of the city / Jeremy Tambling. - New York Routledge 2017 - viii, 238 pages ; P.B. 24 cm. - Routledge studies in nineteenth -century literature .

Table of Contents
Introduction: Urban Writing: Writing Poetry Part I: Writing Styles: Romantic and Baroque I. Dickens’ Reading II. Dickens, Hogarth, and Caricature III. The Old Curiosity Shop Part II: Poetry and the City I. Pickwick Papers: Jingle and Weller II. ‘Bragian Words’: Martin Chuzzlewit III. Stopping Growing: Dombey and Son Part III: Opening Words I. Naming: Dombey and Son to Bleak House II. ‘The Insistence of the Letter’: Bleak House III. Staring in Little Dorrit IV. Novels of the 1860s Part IV: Dickens and the Poetry of Dreams I. The Mask II. The ‘Waking Dream’: Oliver Twist III. ‘The Tempest’ in David Copperfield IV. ‘Scattered Consciousness’: The Mystery of Edwin Drood

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Allegory.
Cities and towns in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.

R 823.8 TAM(DIC)