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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc Mystery fiction |
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Named Person: | Charles Dickens; Victor Hugo; Charles Dickens; Victor Hugo; Charles Dickens; Victor Hugo; Adèle Hugo; Victor Hugo; Charles Dickens; Charles Dickens |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard Maxwell |
ISBN: | 0813913411 9780813913414 |
OCLC Number: | 24546231 |
Description: | xx, 415 pages : 23 illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Allegory and city life -- The labyrinths of Notre-Dame -- Ainsworth's Revelations : failed narrative -- Knotting the maze in Oliver Twist -- Creating the crowd in The old curiosity shop -- Repeating the singular in Martin Chuzzlewit -- The hunchback of Saint Dunstan-in-the-West : failed heroism -- Mystery and revelation in Bleak House -- Mystery and revelation in Les misérables -- Meryon's hybrid monster : failed knowledge -- Dickens's Arabian nights -- Dickens's omniscience -- The city and the cosmos, or, digging your own grave. |
Series Title: | Victorian literature and culture series. |
Responsibility: | Richard Maxwell. |
Abstract:
This study uses 19th-century urban fiction - in particular the novels of Hugo and Dickens - to define a genre: the novel of urban mysteries. He argues that within these extravagant but fact-obsessed narratives the archaic form of allegory became a means for understanding modern cities.
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