A very wicked place: representations of London in Dickens' later novels
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In London
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International College London
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Haringey Sixth Form College
A Level London / Classroom-basedPrice on request -
School of Social Science - Birkbeck University of London
Master London / Classroom-basedPrice on request -
School of Arts - Birkbeck University of London
Master London / Classroom-basedPrice on request -
Kings College London - Summer Programmes
Master London / Classroom-basedPrice on request -
College of North West London
A Level London / Classroom-basedPrice on request -
Courtauld Institute of Art
Master London / Classroom-basedPrice on request
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London
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Dickens was brought up in London, and grew to know the city and its ways intimately. His concern at the spectacle of immense power and wealth existing cheek by jowl with desperate poverty and filth shines through his fiction. Through close reading of extracts from the later novels – complemented by visits to the Temple and the Dickens Museum in Doughty Street – we shall develop a more profound appreciation of the role played by London in Dickens’s creative vision.
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About this course
- Demonstrate insight into how Dickens depicts the dynamism and desperation of contemporary London life.
- Appreciate the depth, complexity and relevance of Dickens’s art.
- Identify how Dickens’s life and circumstances influenced his work.
No. You will be provided with photocopies of the extracts to be studied. Bring a pen and paper.
Teacher explanation; group discussion.
The Tutor
Peter Brennan is a poet, and was for many years Head of English at The Latymer School, Edmonton. He founded Visionary Company courses in 2005, and is Editor-in-Chief of Perdika Press.
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Course programme
We shall discuss extracts from Little Dorrit, Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend, as well as paying (in our imaginations) a mercifully brief visit to Edwin Drood’s Limehouse opium den. On the Saturday afternoon we shall visit the Temple (where crucial scenes in Great Expectations are set) and on Sunday afternoon we will walk to the nearby Dickens Museum which will help us to see and feel the reality of which Dickens wrote.
Additional information
A very wicked place: representations of London in Dickens' later novels
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International College London
A Level London / Classroom-basedPrice on request -
Haringey Sixth Form College
A Level London / Classroom-basedPrice on request -
School of Social Science - Birkbeck University of London
Master London / Classroom-basedPrice on request -
School of Arts - Birkbeck University of London
Master London / Classroom-basedPrice on request -
Kings College London - Summer Programmes
Master London / Classroom-basedPrice on request -
College of North West London
A Level London / Classroom-basedPrice on request -
Courtauld Institute of Art
Master London / Classroom-basedPrice on request