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020			_a9780198859116
028			_a: Zaffa Books & Distributors _b: 313/103A, H. No.-15, Tulsi Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi _c: ZBD0468 _d: 05/03/2026
082			_a823.80 DAS
100			_a Dasgupta, Ushashi.
245			_aCharles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction _b: The Lodger World. _c/Ushashi Dasgupta.
260			_a, UK _b: Oxford University Press _c, 2020.
300			_axiii, 307p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b7654
520			_aWhen Dickens was nineteen years old, he wrote a poem for Maria Beadnell, the young woman he wished to marry. The poem imagined Maria as a welcoming landlady offering lodgings to let. Almost forty years later, Dickens died, leaving his final novel unfinished - in its last scene, another landlady sets breakfast down for her enigmatic lodger. These kinds of characters are everywhere in Dickens's writing. Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction: The Lodger World explores the significance of tenancy in his fiction. In nineteenth century Britain the vast majority of people rented, rather than owned, their homes. Instead of keeping to themselves, they shared space - renting, lodging, taking lodgers in, or simply living side-by-side in a crowded modern city. Charles Dickens explored both the chaos and the unexpected harmony to be found in rented spaces, the loneliness and sociability, the interactions between cohabitants, the complex gender dynamics at play, and the relationship between space and money. Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction demonstrates that a cosy, secluded home life was beyond the reach of most Victorian Londoners, and considers Dickens's nuanced conception of domesticity. Tenancy maintained an enduring hold upon his imagination, giving him new stories to tell and offering him a set of models to think about authorship. He celebrated the fact that unassuming houses brim with narrative potential: comedies, romances, and detective plots take place behind their doors. Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction: The Lodger World wedges these doors open.
650			_aFiction
650			_aCharles Dickens
650			_a Properties of Fiction
700			_aUshashi Dasgupta
942			_cBOOK
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