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• Title:Dickens and travel : the start of modern travel writing / Lucinda Hawksley.
  
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• Author/Creator:Hawksley, Lucinda, author.
  
• Published/Created:Yorkshire : Pen & Sword History, an imprint of Pen & Sword Books, Ltd., 2022.
  ©2022
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: PR4592.T73 L83 2022
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Travel.
  Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Criticism and interpretation.
  Novelists, English--19th century--Travel.
  
• Genre/Form:Literary criticism.
  
• Description:x, 270 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
  
• Summary:"From childhood, Charles Dickens was fascinated by tales from other countries and other cultures, and he longed to see the world. In Dickens and Travel, Lucinda Hawksley looks at the journeys made by the author - who is also her great great great grandfather. Although Dickens is usually perceived as a London author, in the 1840s he whisked his family away to live in Italy for a year, and spent several months in Switzerland. Some years later he took up residence in Paris and Boulogne (where he lived in secret with his lover). In addition to travelling widely in Europe, he also toured America twice, performed onstage in Canada and, before his untimely death, was planning a tour of Australia. Dickens and Travel enters into the world of the Victorian traveller and looks at how Charles Dickens's journeys influenced his writing and enriched his life." -- Book jacket.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-263) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781526735638
  1526735636
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: Exhausted Horses and Drunken Post-boys
  To Yorkshire with Phiz
  Our English Watering Places
  `Perfectly Terrible An Awful Place': Travels Around Scotland
  The Search for Drowned Corpses in Wales
  `A Very Picturesque and Various Country': Reading Tours in Ireland
  Killed with Kindness: A Grand Tour to North America
  New York City: Dazzling Dresses and Wretched Poverty
  Philadelphia: Not Quite the Land of the Free
  To Washington and Beyond: Magnificent Intentions
  The Journey to Italy
  A New Life in Genoa
  Pictures from Italy
  The Ghosts of Rome
  The Continuing Influence of Italy
  `My Hat Shall Ever Be Ready to Be Thrown Up For Switzerland'
  Dickens the Francophile
  Paris
  `Bright Wicked and Wanton'
  Boulogne: The Best Wine and Delicious Views
  Condette: La Mai son Dickens
  A Study in Idleness
  The Uncommercial Traveller
  Ruminating on the Railways
  Returning to America
  `Revolving Restlessly, Australia in My Head'
  Travelling with Dickens.