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Chargement... Dickens and the Workhouse: Oliver Twist and the London Poor (2012)par Ruth Richardson
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This is an absolutely splendid book examining the links between Dickens's works, especially Oliver Twist, and the operation of workhouses and the Poor Law regime in London, particularly the Cleveland Street workhouse which was a stone's throw from number 10 Norfolk Street where Dickens lived on two occasions with his family, as a very small boy and again in his late teens. The author shows how the proximity of the workhouse may have come to influence Dickens's early thinking and his reformist views, leading him to roundly condemn the operation of the New Poor Law in Oliver Twist. Through delving into architectural and commercial history, the author traces the history of No 10 Norfolk Street and the owners of the surrounding shops to trace possible influences on characters and their experiences in the novels. It's a fascinating slice of social and literary history, with some interesting photos and drawings. The Cleveland Street workhouse is still standing and was latterly a branch of the Middlesex Hospital which closed in 2006 and whose main building nearby has since been demolished. The author recounts many details of the horrible suffering that went on within the walls of this and other workhouses, especially after the Poor Law Reform of 1834, which made the regime much harsher and split up families, and also explores the link with the contemporary Anatomy Act, by which the corpses of those who died in workhouses were passed to medical schools for dissection, instead of a decent burial, a fate previously restricted only to the corpses of executed criminals. A powerful and fascinating read. 5/5 ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
The recent discovery that as a young man Charles Dickens lived only a few doors from a major London workhouse made headlines worldwide, and the campaign to save the workhouse from demolition caught the public imagination. Internationally, the media immediately grasped the idea that Oliver Twist's workhouse had been found, and made public the news that both the workhouse and Dickens's old home were still standing, near London's Telecom Tower. This book, by the historian who did the sleuthing behind these exciting new findings, presents the story for the first time, and shows that the two period Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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