All entries for Friday 03 February 2012
February 03, 2012
Dickens, Travel and Little Dorrit
This week the Knowledge Centre have published a second piece based on my podcasts, "Dickens, Travel and Little Dorrit":
"Charles Dickens was fascinated with travel, and this is reflected in Little Dorrit which features continental locations such as Marseilles, Rome and the Alps. Yet why did he represent Europe as a hostile place in this novel, and what can we glean from him about British tourists of the period"