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12. Dickens
May 23, 2024
Dickens
11. Legal London: Expense, Anxiety, Injustice
May 23, 2024
Dickens centered several of his novels in
10. The Heart of Empire
May 23, 2024
Seen as the heart of the empire, London testified to Britain
9. Pleasures and Pains
May 23, 2024
From the theaters of the West End to the gin palaces of Holborn, Victorian London offered a wide range of enjoyments and entertainment
8. London Past, Present, and Future
May 23, 2024
History runs deep in London. Dickens as a time traveler in the city, exploring the many eras that London displays in its very stones and streets. Consider how Victorian
7. Engineering London
May 23, 2024
Focusing on such projects as the construction of the railways and the embankment of the Thames, consider the many ways in which the Victorians sought to improve their capital city. As you
6. London Fog
May 23, 2024
By the 1850s, Londoners used 13 million cubic feet of gas a day and 3 million tons of coal every year. The immense population also generated about 9.5 million cubic feet of refuse daily. Through Dickens
5. London
May 23, 2024
Look back on ways the natural world was radically altered to suit human wishes and needs in 19th century London and consider what Dickens
4. Growing Up like Nell and Oliver
May 23, 2024
Many of Dickens
3. Sexes and the City
May 23, 2024
The near-complete separation of public and private space was an idealized and deeply gendered division in Victorian culture. Consider the appeal of the feminized domestic space as opposed to the harsh public world, while also examining why the idyllic image of sheltered womanhood was simply not a reality for most wives and daughters in the London of Dickens's day.
2. Crime and Punishment, London Style
May 23, 2024
Novels like Oliver Twist show Dickens's empathy for the desperate and advocate for progressive reform, yet the novelist also had a strong authoritarian streak. As you will see in this lecture, this contradiction mirrors the debates over crime and policing that were unfolding in London at the time
1. A Tale of Two Londons
May 23, 2024
Travel back to Victorian London and explore the extreme contrasts of the city that inspired Charles Dickens
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