England in the Age of Dickens
England in the Age of Dickens Beginning with an overview of the age of Dickens, Professor Jeremy Black guides the reader through the biography and writings of the great man to show how his work not…
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England in the Age of Dickens
Beginning with an overview of the age of Dickens, Professor Jeremy Black guides the reader through the biography and writings of the great man to show how his work not only expressed his experience of Victorian England, but also defined it, for his contemporaries and for generations to come. Professor Black considers London as the centre of all but also how Dickens even succeeded in defining the countryside - to say nothing of his effect on concepts of gender and social structure. In some ways for us, Victorian England simply is Dickens' England.
Dickens describes a culture - popular, middle and lite - and at the same time creates one. Then there is government - from the Circumlocution Office to Britain as the supreme imperial power. It takes a historian of Professor Black's standing to differentiate between the two and show how they