Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction: The Lodger World
- Submitting institution
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University of Oxford
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 11605
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198859116
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 130,000-word monograph combines four years’ doctoral and three years’ postdoctoral research. A study of tenancy in the Victorian imagination, it is the first to pay sustained attention to Dickens and reveals the home to be a messier concept than previously acknowledged. Bringing together ideas from various disciplines (literary criticism, economic history, geography), it argues that the lived experience of ‘rented space’ both drew Dickens’s interest and offered him models for conceptualising narrative. It sheds new light on topics such as the landlady, the window tax, and the Great Exhibition, and delivers original readings of Dickens’s major and minor works.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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