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Taking Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project as an inspiration, Dickens's London offers an exciting and original project that opens a dialogue between phenomenology, philosophy and the Dickensian representation of the city in all its forms. Julian Wolfreys suggests that in their representations of London - its streets, buildings, public institutions, domestic residences, rooms and phenomena that constitute such space - Dickens's novels and journalism can be seen as forerunners of urban and material phenomenology. While also addressing those aspects of the urban that are developed from Dickens's interpretations of other literary forms, styles and genres, Dickens's London presents in twenty-six episodes (from Banking and Breakfast via the Insolvent Court, Melancholy and Poverty, to Todgers and Time, Voice and Waking) a radical reorientation to London in the nineteenth century, the development of Dickens as a writer, and the ways in which readers today receive and perceive both.

Literature --- Victorian --- London --- urban consciousness --- urban tropology --- nineteenth-century literature --- charles dickens

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Tracing the shift from liberal to neoliberal education from the nineteenth century to the present day, this open access book provides a rich and previously underdeveloped narrative of value in higher education in England. Value and the Humanities draws upon historical, financial, and critical debates concerning educational and cultural policy. Rather than writing a singular defence of the humanities against economic rationalism, Zoe Hope Bulaitis constructs a nuanced map of the intersections of value in the humanities, encompassing an exploration of policy engagement, scientific discourses, fictional representation, and the humanities in public life. The book articulates a kaleidoscopic range of humanities practices which demonstrate that although recent policy encourages higher education to be entirely motivated by outcomes, fiscal targets, and the acquisition of employability skills, the humanities continue to inspire and aspire beyond these limits. This book is a historically-grounded and theoretically-informed analysis of the value of the humanities within the context of the market.

Literary Theory --- Nineteenth-Century Literature --- Higher Education --- Cultural Economics --- neoliberal university --- humanities education --- higher education --- humanities crisis --- economics of education --- higher education policy --- Victorian literature --- Victorian economics --- Open Access --- Literary theory --- Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 --- Higher & further education, tertiary education --- Economics

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This open access collection of essays examines the literary advice industry since its emergence in Anglo-American literary culture in the mid-nineteenth century within the context of the professionalization of the literary field and the continued debate on creative writing as art and craft. Often dismissed as commercial and stereotypical by authors and specialists alike, literary advice has nonetheless remained a flourishing business, embodying the unquestioned values of a literary system, but also functioning as a sign of a literary system in transition. Exploring the rise of new online amateur writing cultures in the twenty-first century, this collection of essays considers how literary advice proliferates globally, leading to new forms and genres.

History of the Book --- Nineteenth-Century Literature --- Creative Writing --- Literature and Technology/Media --- Culture and Technology --- Literature and Technology --- literary culture --- publishing culture --- literary advice manuals --- creative writing advice --- self-help books --- popular literature --- writing podcasts --- reading communities --- commercial writing culture --- popular amateur writing culture --- Open Access --- Literature: history & criticism --- Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 --- Creative writing & creative writing guides --- Literary studies: general --- Cultural studies