Going astray : Dickens and London / Jeremy Tambling.

New York : Pearson Longman, 2008.

xiii, 359 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Pearson education ltd. ed.

The eidometropolis: a view of London. Eighteenth-century London -- Wordsworth's London -- Dickens in London -- Reading the city -- Street-scenes: sb, with Pickwick papers and Nicholas Nickleby -- Street-life: sb -- Pickwick papers -- Nicholas Nickleby -- Newgate London: Oliver Twist. Hanging clothes -- Islington to Field Lane -- Bethnal Green to Chertsey -- North London -- Jacob's Island -- London as ruin: tales from Master Humphrey's clock -- Antiquarian history -- Master Humphrey's clock -- The old curiosity shop -- The old curiosity shop and allegory -- Towards Barnaby Rudge -- Barnaby Rudge and London. Camden town: Dombey and son -- The railway world -- Dombey's London -- Dickens and Ruskin -- Trains and trauma -- Modernising London: David Copperfield. Warren's blacking factory -- The Strand-- The borough -- The modern Babylon -- London before the law: Bleak house. London as archive -- Legal London -- Consecrated ground -- 'Mudfog' -- London and taboo: Little Dorrit. The city -- Marseilles/Marshalsea -- Mrs Clennam's secret -- Bleeding Heart yard -- Mrs Merdle's parrot -- The warm baths -- Traumatic London: Great expectations. Smithfield -- St Paul's and Newgate -- Newgate and Walworth -- Hanging fantasies -- Newgate and Estella -- The river -- Estella and the city -- 'City full of dreams': the uncommercial traveller. Melancholy -- The city -- Fashionable London -- Institutions -- Death -- 'Night walks' -- 'The scene of my death': our mutual friend -- The river -- Waste -- Headstone/heterogeneity -- Dickens and Gissing. London after Dickens -- Gissing in London -- Realism and idealism -- Suburban London -- Conclusion.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-350) and index.