Outcast London keyword-reynolds Shakespeare and Dickens

Shakespeare and Dickens

and that his dialectic was explicitly anti-materialist in both intention and effect

A critical assumption of the book is that while it is necessary and inevitable that historians write out of the history of their own times

and the central role of art and literature in the development of his critical vision

the work of Krzysztof Kieslowski

Outcast London keyword-reynolds Shakespeare and DickensIn the second half of the nineteenth century, Victorian middle and upper classes felt increasingly threatened by the masses of outcast London. Gareth Stedman Jones, working from a mass of statistical and documentary evidence, argues that after 1850 London passed through a crisis of social and economic development. Outcast London is a fascinating and important study of the problem at the center of the crisis: the casual poor and their fraught relations