Dickensland

• Verfasst von: Jackson, Lee [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Dickensland
• Titelzusatz: the curious history of Dickens's London
• Verf.angabe: Lee Jackson
• Verlagsort: New Haven ; London
• Verlag: Yale University Press
• E-Jahr: 2023
• Jahr: [2023]
• Umfang: viii, 272 Seiten, 12 ungezählte Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• ISBN: 978-0-300-26620-7
• Schlagwörter: (s)Literarische Stätte / (g)London
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Jackson, Lee, 1971 - : Dickensland. - New Haven : YALE UNIV PRESS, 2023. - 1 Online-Ressource (272 Seiten)
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Jackson, Lee: Dickensland. - 1st ed.. - New Haven : Yale University Press, 2023. - 1 online resource (293 pages)
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Jackson, Lee, 1971 - : Dickensland. - New Haven : YALE UNIV PRESS, 2023. - 1 Online-Ressource (272 Seiten)
• RVK-Notation: HL 2585
• Sach-SW: Homes
• Sach-SW: Literary landmarks
• Sach-SW: Guidebooks
• Sach-SW: History
• Geograph. SW: England - London
• K10plus-PPN: 1858265231

Abstract

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 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. - publisher