Knowing Dickens
MANAGER OF THE HOUSE 169 In this oblique way, Dickens celebrated his new life. Written some months after he had established the ...
170 Chapter 6 Streets Should you want to know how to get to the coffee-house where Mr. Squeers stays when he is in London, Dic ...
STREETS 171 will take you through brick-fields and tile-yards to her dingy back room, perhaps in Shoreditch, where she will stri ...
172 KNOWING DICKENS the Morning Chronicle. As Forster writes of this London, “Its interior hidden life becomes familiar as its c ...
STREETS 173 within an easy walk of their source of pain at Lincoln’s Inn, Dickens’s London keeps his history close at hand. Perh ...
174 KNOWING DICKENS as an articulation of city space: footsteps crossing and mingling “give their shape to spaces. They weave pl ...
STREETS 175 Stephen Marcus vigorously contests Chesterton’s theory of unconscious absorption, evoking a child who was already “e ...
176 KNOWING DICKENS to Dickens’s ongoing interest in particular streets and bridges; there is more pride than pathos in those me ...
STREETS 177 Or, they might signify for the adult writer, whose fascination with the city takes him, every day, miles away from h ...
178 KNOWING DICKENS Dickens through Benjamin points to the historical typicality of Dickens’s various street poses as walker, wa ...
STREETS 179 of September 1854: “If I couldn’t walk fast and far, I should just explode and perish” (7.429). Dickens walked to wr ...
180 KNOWING DICKENS describe himself as “breaking out,” as though he had been imprisoned or enchained by his own practice of pub ...
STREETS 181 walk about the fields and streets every evening... otherwise I should not be steadily enough set upon the dismissal ...
182 KNOWING DICKENS partly of the absence of streets and numbers of figures. I can’t express how much I want these. It seems as ...
STREETS 183 sentence “Night is generally my time of walking.” He explains: “it affords me greater opportunity of speculating on ...
184 KNOWING DICKENS impermanence. The world of sight appears to be there; pressing on us without remission, the world of sound i ...
STREETS 185 Church, and the Bells are making such an intolerable uproar that I can’t hear myself think” (7.397; 7.549). Highly m ...
186 KNOWING DICKENS all its steeples, pouring into his ears again and again, in a tuneless, grating, discordant, jerking, hideou ...
STREETS 187 comfortable recollections and what not, to all sorts of people and places... the bells haunting people in the night. ...
188 KNOWING DICKENS a particular turning. He makes sure, however, to distinguish himself from other strollers who walk only to d ...
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