Browse Hierarchy ESH5007: Dickens and the Multi-Plot City

London was not only where Dickens lived, but a never-failing resource for his restless imagination. Over the thirty years of his career he transformed the novel into a cultural vessel capable simultaneously of entertaining and raising consciousness in a wide, popular readership that had a central place within an unprecedentedly modern, urban society. Dickens's development of multiplot narrative was a response to the modern city's irreducible complexity. This module will think about the relationship between Dickens' writing and other forms - TV version, film adaptation, audiobook - that have taken on his multi-plot imagination and rendered it for other media. Three of his most extraordinary novels - Bleak House, Little Dorrit and Our Mutual Friend will be showcased, with enough time planned into the schedule, to explore these rich, complex works, in conjunction with a series of trips and visits to places in London, and its orbit, that mean something significant within the Dickensian cityscape