Dickens, Europe and the New Worlds

The essays collected in this volume offer fresh readings of Dickens''s travelogues and novels, often pointing to the many-sidedness of his personality. The ''uncommercial traveller'' emerges as an ecumenical John Bull, chary of the alien but greedy of novelty, a man whose incursions on well-trodden or unfamiliar ground are always journeys into the uncanny. Besides dealing with the geography of the...