Hogarth, Egan, Dickens, and the Making of an Urban Aesthetic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5149879 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sambudha Sen (0009-0002-6216-4580, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 103 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 84-106 |
| Publication date | 2008-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Representations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0734-6018 • E-ISSN: 1533-855X |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/rep.2008.103.1.84 |
| OpenAlex | W2093896249 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This essay tracks the making of an urban aesthetic as it developed from Hogarth's Industry and Idleness to Dickens's Oliver Twist. It argues that the urban aesthetic works in these texts to both contain and express the internal differences of the metropolis. It focuses on the ways in which the juxtapositional possibilities produced by the urban aesthetic affected such basic features of the novel as plot and characterization
| Citations per year | 0.12 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2013 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |