Dickensland

Dickensland
Author: Lee Jackson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2023-09-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300275056

The intriguing history of Dickens’s London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years “Jackson paints a vivid and detailed picture of the city as it was. . . . Dickens, who was no stranger to the instructive and comedic joys of pedantry, would surely have approved.”—Ann Alicia Garza, Times Literary Supplement Tourists have sought out the landmarks, streets, and alleys of Charles Dickens’s London ever since the death of the world-renowned author. Late Victorians and Edwardians were obsessed with tracking down the locations—dubbed “Dickensland”—that famously featured in his novels. But his fans were faced with a city that was undergoing rapid redevelopment, where literary shrines were far from sacred. Over the following century, sites connected with Dickens were demolished, relocated, and reimagined. Lee Jackson traces the fascinating history of Dickensian tourism, exploring both real Victorian London and a fictional city shaped by fandom, tourism, and heritage entrepreneurs. Beginning with the late nineteenth century, Jackson investigates key sites of literary pilgrimage and their relationship with Dickens and his work, revealing hidden, reinvented, and even faked locations. From vanishing coaching inns to submerged riverside stairs, hidden burial grounds to apocryphal shops, Dickensland charts the curious history of an imaginary world.

Dickens-Land

Dickens-Land
Author: J. A. Nicklin
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2022-08-01
Genre: Travel
ISBN:

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Dickens-Land" by J. A. Nicklin. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Dickens-land

Dickens-land
Author: John Arnold Nicklin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 96
Release: 1911
Genre: England
ISBN:

Description of the land-marks of Victorian London.

A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land

A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land
Author: William R. Hughes
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2019-12-06
Genre: Travel
ISBN:

In this delightful travelogue, the author takes us on a journey through the charming landscapes of England, a country that heavily influenced the works of Charles Dickens, one of the greatest writers in English literature. From the bustling city of London to the quaint towns of Rochester, Chatham, and Canterbury, the author explores the places that inspired some of Dickens' most memorable characters and stories. With vivid descriptions of the sights, sounds, and people, the reader is transported to the world of Dickens, where the echoes of his writing can still be heard today.