The Oxford Edition of Charles Dickens: The Uncommercial Traveller
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 30 April 2024
- ISBN 9780192883018
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages560 pages
- Size 223x145x35 mm
- Weight 776 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 5 black and white maps 608
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Short description:
Part of the new Oxford Edition of Charles Dickens, this is the first fully critical edition of Dickens' late journalistic masterpiece, The Uncommercial Traveller. The edition includes textual and explanatory notes, a critical essay, a glossary of terms likely to be unfamiliar to the modern reader, and detailed maps.
MoreLong description:
The Uncommercial Traveller is a remarkable display of creative journalism from Dickens's final decade, balancing Sketches by Boz at the beginning of his career. The 37 short papers, which first appeared in his weekly journal All The Year Round, offer sensitive and penetrating perspectives on London, Britain, and France in the 1860s. In the company of the Traveller, readers undertake a series of journeys. We visit the scene of a disastrous shipwreck on Anglesey, the docklands at Liverpool, and the Chatham dockyard. We accompany the Traveller as he returns to the scene of his early childhood in 'Dullborough'. We cross the Channel in atrocious conditions, and we explore 'the French-Flemish country'. Twice, we join the local crowds for the gruesome entertainment offered by the Paris morgue. Nearer to Dickens's Covent Garden base we attend a popular theatre for a performance and a Sunday sermon. We visit a children's hospital, a lead factory, and a naval school. We tramp the city by night. We have repeated problems with restaurants. We hear weird stories, meet odd characters, and much more.
Full of humour, sentiment, quirkiness; supremely assured in their command of style; astonishingly varied: these papers take a worthy place alongside the Dickens's late fictional masterpieces Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend.
This is the first fully critical edition of The Uncommercial Traveller, based on detailed study of the surviving densely worked manuscripts and the early printed texts. The edition includes a full analytical essay, textual notes, and detailed explanatory notes, as well as a glossary of unusual terms and words used in senses likely to be unfamiliar to modern readers.
...these excellent scholarly editions offer all the information one could possibly want, from maps to carefully analysed proof corrections, with illustrations, thought-provoking essays and comprehensive explanatory notes. These volumes are now the definitive texts of these works...
Table of Contents:
Preface
THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELLER
Abbreviations, Shortened Forms of Reference, and Conventions
Essay on the Text
Appendix 1: Uncommercial Traveller Entries in the All the Year Round Contents Lists
Appendix 2: Illustrations
Textual Witnesses
Textual Notes
End-of-line Hyphens
Explanatory Notes
Glossary
Index of Bridges, Buildings, Places, and Streets in London and South-East England
Map of London
Map of the West End
Map of the City of London
Map of the East End
Map of South East England
