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Dickens and the Unreal City: Searching for Spiritual Significance in Nineteenth-Century London, Dickens was no theologian. His direct statements on religion can only take us so far. His task of representing London in words, however, led him to grapple with Christianity imaginatively and at a much deeper level. This new book shows how Dickens's Londo, Dickens and the Unreal City: Searching for Spiritual Significance in Nineteenth-Century London
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  • Dickens and the Unreal City: Searching for Spiritual Significance in Nineteenth-Century London
  • Written by author Karl Ashley Smith
  • Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 7/15/2008
  • Dickens was no theologian. His direct statements on religion can only take us so far. His task of representing London in words, however, led him to grapple with Christianity imaginatively and at a much deeper level. This new book shows how Dickens's Londo
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List of Illustrations     vi
Acknowledgements     vii
List of Abbreviations     ix
Introduction: 'A heap of broken images'     1
'A revelation by which men are to guide themselves': Dickens and Christian Theology     8
'The debilitated old house in the city': London as Haunted House     34
'A great (and dirty) city': London's Dirt and the Terrors of Obscurity     63
'Angel and devil by turns': The Detective Figure in Bleak House     91
'A road of ashes': London's Railway and the Providential Timetable     118
'The secrets of the river': The Thames within London     148
'A dream of demon heads and savage eyes': Dickens' Metropolitan Crowd     178
Conclusion: 'What is the city over the mountains'     211
Notes     223
Bibliography     236
Index     241


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Dickens and the Unreal City: Searching for Spiritual Significance in Nineteenth-Century London, Dickens was no theologian. His direct statements on religion can only take us so far. His task of representing London in words, however, led him to grapple with Christianity imaginatively and at a much deeper level. This new book shows how Dickens's Londo, Dickens and the Unreal City: Searching for Spiritual Significance in Nineteenth-Century London

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