Going Astray by Jeremy Tambling
Among the numerous books on Dickenss London, Going Astray is unique in combining detailed topography and biography with close textual analysis and theoretically informed critiques of most of the novelists major works. In Jeremy Tamblings intriguing and illuminating synthesis, the London A-Z meets Nietzsche, Benjamin and Derrida. Rick Allen, author of The Moving Pageant: A Literary Sourcebook on London Street-Life, 1700-1914 Dickens wrote so insistently about London its streets, its people, its unknown areas that certain parts of the city are forever haunted by him. Going Astray: Dickens and London looks at the novelists delight in losing the self in the labyrinthine city and maps that interest, onto the compulsion to go astray in writing. Drawing on all Dickens published writings (including the journalism but concentrating on the novels), Jeremy Tambling considers the authors kaleidoscopic characterisations of London: as prison and as legal centre; as the heart of empire and of traumatic memory; as the place of the uncanny; as an old curiosity shop. His study examines the relations between narrative and the city, and explores how the metropolis encapsulates the problems of modernity for Dickens as well as suggesting the limits of representation. Combining contemporary literary and cultural theory with historical maps, photographs and contextual detail, Jeremy Tamblings book is an indispensable guide to Dickens, nineteenth- century literature, and the city itself."Jeremy Tambling's richly rewarding book about the most haunted metropolis in fiction" - The Independent, 15 December 2008 (readership 714,000)
"Tambling delivers subtle and sinuous reading[s] of individual works. He shows how deeply Dickens' fiction inhabits London places."- Times Higher Education, December 2008 (readership 88,000)
Jeremy Tambling is Professor of Literature at the University of Manchester. An acknowledged expert on Dickens and on cities, he is the author of, among others, Re:Verse (Longman, 2007), Blakes Night Thoughts (Palgrave, 2004), and Becoming Posthumous (Edinburgh University Press, 2001).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781405899871 |
| ISBN 10 | 1405899875 |
| Title | Going Astray |
| Author | Jeremy Tambling |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year published | 2008-10-13 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
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